Neuroscience

Q: What Are You Doing? A: Depends, What Are You Hearing?

Why, in difficult driving conditions or when lost, do people turn down the volume of their radio? Some new research links motor skills and perception, specifically as it relates to a second finding; a new understanding of what the left and right brain hemi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2012 - 4:19pm

How To Eliminate Fear- Create New Competitive Memory Traces

If suffer from arachnophobia, fear or spiders, you know that rationality does not enter into it. Imagining a huge and hairy tarantula crawling on your arm in a therapist’s office is not less scary than coming out of the shower and seeing a tiny spider. Why ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2012 - 12:00pm

Teaching An Elephant To Speak Korean

An Asian elephant named Koshik can speak  exactly five words in Korean that can be readily understood by those who know the language. The elephant accomplishes this in a most unusual way: he vocalizes with his trunk in his mouth. The words include "a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2012 - 12:40pm

Nose-to-Brain Research Of Oxytocin In Autism Spectrum Disorders

OptiNose US Inc. has announced that its Norwegian affiliate was awarded $2.1 million by the Research Council of Norway to study its nasal drug delivery technology in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). OptiNose will use this research grant ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2012 - 3:01pm

Speech Perception And Production- Why We Can Read Our Own Lips Better Than Others

Most people can't read lips. If you turn down the sound on your television, you can see why it is difficule. Unless trained, if you see someone speak a sentence without the accompanying sounds, you are unlikely to recognize many words but it turns out ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2012 - 7:00pm

Acoustic Stimulus: Neural Oscillations Optimize Human Listening Behavior

We know brain activity changes many times over the course of a day. When listening, this oscillation synchronizes to the sounds we are hearing. Not only that, say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, this oscill ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2012 - 8:00am

Let's Talk About The Fidelity Pill

A recent study in the Journal of Neuroscience (here) has conveniently coincided with the announcement of the High Profile Affair of the Year awardee. The two have come together to stir up interest in having some sort of fidelity pill that spoken-for men co ...

Article - David Sloan - Nov 27 2012 - 4:06pm

NET-fMRI Models Neural Interaction In Periods Of Silence

While in deep sleep, our hippocampus sends messages to our cortex and changes its plasticity, possibly transferring recently acquired knowledge to long-term memory. How exactly is this done? Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernet ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2012 - 7:54pm

The lie of our own brain

The only instrument that we have to achieve a comprehension of the environment and our selves as a part of it, is the prefrontal cortex.  The frontal lobes give us the voluntary movement, the decision-making, the problem solving structure, and future plann ...

Blog Post - Arturo Pèrez-Arteaga - Nov 26 2012 - 2:07am

White Light, White Noise, White Odor?

You can see the color white and you can hear white noise but you can also smell a white odor, says new research.  When we see white, we are seeing a mixture of light waves of different wavelengths. The hum we call white noise is a combination of assorted ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 1:00pm