Neuroscience Intros

Neuroscience Intros are short introductions to neuroscience research articles hosted on other science websites. Usually websites allow up to 200 words to be used with a link back to the original article.

Brain May Not Be Hard Wired to Link Numbers and Space

Neuroscience Intro: This is an introduction to an article posted on another website. The full article is available at the link below the article. Is our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – a cultural invention rather than an innate ability? Members of a remote tribe in [...]

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Wearable Muscle Suit Makes Heavy Lifting a Cinch

A lightweight exoskeleton will allow the elderly to move around more easily. New Scientist heads to a Japanese laboratory to try it on for size. I’M IN a lab in downtown Tokyo full of grinning engineering students, who are peering past PC monitors and half-completed gadgets to watch me try and lift 40 kilograms of [...]

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