Neuroscience

The Braintionary- Our Brain's Mental Lexicon

You open your dictionary to figure out what your friend meant by 'nasute,' only to find that the definition is "A wittol, or jemadar; bannocked in an emunctory fashion." What good is this dictionary, you wonder, if it only refers me to ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Sep 27 2009 - 11:49pm

What Is Life?

This seems to be a simple enough question: what exactly constitutes the definition of ‘life’? Let us begin, at the beginning – as they say. ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 1 2009 - 12:30pm

Autism Gets A Genome-wide Study

A study combining family- and population-based approaches has uncovered a single-letter change in the genetic code that is associated with autism.  The finding implicates a neuronal gene not previously tied to the disorder and more broadly, underscores a r ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 4:40pm

Do Non-English Speaking Kids Get Dyslexia?

Children in english-speaking, letter-driven languages are diagnosed with dyslexia more commonly than those in Asia so is it a function of our alphabet? English dyslexia consists of a 'phonological disorder',  meaning that people with the conditio ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2009 - 8:52pm

AI And The End Of Human Relevance

In 1989, the Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov easily defeated the computer Deep Thought (name drawn from the Douglas Adams book). In 1997 Deep Blue kicked his ass, spawning accusations of cheating (which IBM denied). In a million-dollar rematch in 200 ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Dec 7 2009 - 10:27pm

Romance under a Microscope: Of Promiscuous Philandering Types and Monogamous Married Types

No sooner met but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner loved but they sighed; No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; And in these degrees have they made a pair of st ...

Blog Post - Jigyasa Jyotika - Nov 19 2012 - 4:00pm

Harnessing The Full Potential Of A Common MS Therapy

While inflammation often causes damage to the nerves of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, a group of HBI researchers has been studying how neuroinflammation can instead be harnessed to repair the damage caused by this disease. Dr. V.W. Yong’s laboratory se ...

Article - Lisa Fleece - Oct 16 2009 - 3:35pm

The Unconscious Regulation Of Emotion

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Article - Anonymous - Oct 18 2009 - 11:59pm

Learning 'Greases' Connections Between Brain Regions

Brain activity considered to be  spontaneous 'white noise' changes after a person learns a new task, according to researchers, and the degree of change reflects how well subjects have learned to perform the task. The suggestion is that this learn ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2009 - 4:26pm

5-month Old Infants Can Discern Difference Between Human And Monkey Speech

Infants can correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls even when they are as young as five months old, says a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) study.   While young children know tha ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2009 - 5:47pm