Neuroscience

What's So Tricky About Tickling?

a nutshell, that’s what is so tricky about tickling. Is it a social phenomenon, or a completely neural one? It ...

Article - Sarah Harrison - Jul 20 2013 - 10:46am

What Fossilized Ear Bones Tell Us About Ancient Human Hearing

modern humans from about 1.0-3.0 kHz, and the region of best hearing was shifted toward slightly higher ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 28 2019 - 12:16pm

Alzheimer's Costs Are About To Boom

advances that delay the onset of Alzheimer's by five years add about 2.7 years of life for patients. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2014 - 10:50am

Folk Wisdom Is Not Right About Left Brains

easier to access. The team found that the magnitude of asymmetry was about the same in humans and most ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2020 - 8:00am

What Robots Can Tell Us About Brain Cells

detected cells about 40 percent of the time. The four-step process a robotic arm guided by a cell-detecting ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2012 - 10:25am

Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby. Or At Least Research It?

wanted a step-by-step blueprint of how to be ‘cool’ writers about taboo topics in a legitimate field. ...

Article - M G - Apr 25 2009 - 5:22pm

Learning New Skills: It's All About Flexing The Brain

Learning a new skill is easier when it is related to an ability we already have. For example, a trained pianist can learn a new melody easier than learning how to hit a tennis serve. Scientists from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) have ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 2:22pm

The Adaptive Brain In Action