Neuroscience

Birth Hormone May Control Expression Of Autism In Animals

The autism community agrees that autism has its origins in early life—fotal and/or postnatal. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2014 - 3:05pm

Sensing Science? Subconscious Processing Can Aid Big Data Analysis, Say Psychologists

Can data be a tactile experience? The CEEDs project thinks it can be, and they want to use integrated technologies to support human experience when trying to make sense of very large datasets. Jonathan Freeman Professor of Psychology at Goldsmith Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2014 - 4:41pm

Is There Right-Handed Bias In Neuroscience Studies?

Everyone feels neuroscience studies are biased, no matter how representative they try to be. But Roel Willems and colleagues from the  Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen,  and Max Planck Institute in Nijmege ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2014 - 6:01am

Stroke Victim Brain Imaging Finds Anterior Insula Is The 'Sweet Spot' For Love

The anterior insula region deep inside the brain controls how quickly people make decisions about love, according to a new paper. The finding, made in an examination of a 48-year-old man who suffered a stroke, is the first causal clinical evidence that th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2014 - 12:37pm

Why Do Some People Remember Their Dreams?

Some people don't remember dreams at all while some remember them frequently. What separates them? Images in brain scans, at least, though that may lead to a more meaningful answer also.  ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:11am

To Jazz Musician Brains, Music And Language Are A Lot Alike- But When They Play, Something Different Happens...

Jazz musicians do a lot of spontaneous, improvisational music and brains scans show robust activation of brain areas traditionally associated with spoken language and syntax, which are used to interpret the structure of phrases and sentences. But this mus ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2014 - 9:22pm

Carbohydrates Increase Risk Of Dementia- Because You'll Believe Anything

David Perlmutter, MD, became well-known last year as the best-selling author of Grain Brain, which demonizes wheat (and, of course, gluten) and he recently claimed that simple dietary changes would prevent half of Alzheimer's cases.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2014 - 2:02pm

Achilles Ear: Our Recall For Sounds Is Worse Than For Sight And Touch

Our brains may not be optimized for recalling things we hear, the way we are good at remembering things we see or touch. Psychologists doing a study of over 100 University of Iowa college students found that they were less able to recall a variety of soun ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2014 - 6:49pm

Music Prodigies Beat Math Prodigies With Numbers And Art Prodigies Are Awful At Shapes

At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the brains of these two child prodigies have in common? ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 5 2014 - 1:30pm

Soundscapes: Training Blind People To See Shapes Using Sound

People born unable to see are readily capable of learning to perceive the shape of the human body through soundscapes that translate images into sound, according to a new article in Current Biology. With a little training, soundscapes representing the out ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 4:34pm