Neuroscience

Bilingual Pre-School Kids Become More Likely To Stutter

Children who are bilingual before the age of 5 are significantly more likely to stutter and to find it harder to lose their impediment compared to children who speak only one language before that age, according to research in Archives of Disease in Childh ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 6:44pm

Neural Link Between Intelligence And Self-Control

If you had a choice between receiving $1,000 right now or $4,000 ten years from now, which would you pick? Psychologists use the term “delay discounting” to describe our inability to resist the temptation of a smaller immediate reward in lieu of receiving ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2008 - 9:26am

A Genome Atlas of Brain Cancer

The latest in a string of cancer genome sequencing papers is now online at Nature. The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, a large consortuim of cancer researchers, has searched the genomes of 206 different brain cancer samples (all glioblastomas) for a ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 10:39pm

Taxi Drivers Have 'GPS' In Their Brains

Our brains contain their own navigation system much like satellite navigation ("sat-nav"), with in-built maps, grids and compasses, neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers told the BA Festival of Science at the University of Liverpool today. The brain' ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2008 - 9:24am

Insight Into Oenocytes: Flies Feel Sexual Peer Pressure Too

We all know that people can be influenced in complex ways by their peers. But two new studies in the September 11th issue of Current Biology reveal that the same can also be said of fruit flies. The researchers found that group composition affects individu ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2008 - 1:05pm

Never The Same Image Twice- Humans Learn Recognition, And Robots Can Too

MIT neuroscientists have tricked the visual brain into confusing one object with another, demonstrating that time teaches us how to recognize objects. This discovery, they say, could lead to robots with actual 'recognition' ability. It may sound ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2008 - 9:30pm

The Physical Effects Of Feelings- Exclusion Literally 'Feels' Cold

When we hear somebody described as “frosty” or “cold”, we automatically picture a person who is unfriendly and antisocial. There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold temperatures and emotions such as ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2008 - 10:03am

Superior Colliculus- How We Sometimes Look Without Seeing

The superior colliculus has long been thought of as a rapid orienting center of the brain that allows the eyes and head to turn swiftly either toward or away from the sights and sounds in our environment. Now a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2008 - 9:24am

Republican Or Democrat? Your Political Leanings May Be A Result Of Your Physiology

How you react physically to stimuli can have a great deal of impact on how you perceive the world and therefore how you vote, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). For example, people who react more strong ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2008 - 6:13pm

No Cognitive Mapping- The Case Of A Patient Who Is Literally Lost All Of The Time

Imagine you can never do the simplest memory orientation task, like finding your way home from the grocery store. In a world where most of us take our ability to do 'cognitive mapping' of our environment for granted, being lost all of the time li ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2008 - 1:25pm