Neuroscience

Sense Of Touch Uses Vibrations, Just Like Hearing

The precise timing and frequency of these neural responses convey specific messages about texture to ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2012 - 5:52pm

How Woodpecker Bodies Cushion Collision Impact On Bird Brains

woodpecker understanding go beyond football helmets. "What about vehicular design?" said Williams. ...

Article - Katharine Gammon - Jun 20 2015 - 3:24pm

How The Brain Translates Sound

about 500 clicks per second-- but with a rate code in which neurons fire in a random and disconnected ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2015 - 8:45am

Grasping How The Brain Plans Gripping Motion

without relying on any assumptions about what the brain is trying to do. The patterns can be distinguished ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 11:30am

Hearing Voices Again? It's More Common Than You Think

a Maori colleague interviewed 80 Maori people about what causes people to hear voices. For them, it was ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2016 - 11:00am

Socially Stunted by Facebook?

would seem that the tendency to develop new friendships would have to be somehow inhibited. Think about ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Mar 23 2009 - 9:48am

This Holiday Season, Consider The Power Of Sour

"Once we've understood the nature of the molecules that sense sour, we can start thinking about how ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2010 - 4:07pm

Noam Chomsky Was Right? We Have Inborn Language Sense, Says Study

problem of acquisition is made simpler by the fact that learners already know some important things about ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2011 - 11:38am

The Emotional Life Of Bees

a negative emotional state. Although our results do not allow us to make any claims about the presence of ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 4 2011 - 1:22am

It's Not Cognitive Decline, Older Brains May Be Slower Because They Know More

researchers to make quantitative estimates about the number of words an adult can be expected to learn across ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2014 - 11:57am