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Featured Neurology Psychology

·November 29, 2011·2 min read

Look at That! Ravens Use Gestures, Too

Ravens gesture with their beaks to point out objects to each other Pointing and holding up objects in order to...

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·November 11, 2011·3 min read

Attention and Awareness Uncoupled

Brain imaging experiments uncouple two apparently intimately connected mental processes In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending...

Featured Neuroscience

·August 31, 2011·7 min read

Word Association: Princeton Study Matches Brain Scans with Complex Thought

In an effort to understand what happens in the brain when a person reads or considers such abstract ideas as...

Featured Neuroscience

·July 28, 2011·3 min read

Brain’s Connectome From Branch to Branch

Max Planck scientists develop new analytical tools for the fast and accurate reconstruction of neural networks. The human brain is...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·July 18, 2011·3 min read

Researchers Find Neural Signature of Mental Time Travel

Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania...

Featured Neurology

·June 20, 2011·2 min read

Brain Pathway Links Nicotine and Weight Loss

Smokers often gain weight when they quit. A new study in mice may help explain why. Scientists have pinpointed a...

Featured Neuroscience

·June 14, 2011·2 min read

Researchers Discover ‘Road Map’ in Fish Brain for How Vertebrates Produce Sounds

Cornell researchers have identified regions of a fish brain that reveal the basic circuitry for how all vertebrates, including humans,...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 2, 2011·3 min read

Researchers Map, Measure Brain’s Neural Connections

Computer scientists at Brown University have created software to examine neural circuitry in the human brain. The 2-D neural maps...

Neuroscience

·June 1, 2011·2 min read

USC Study Locates Source of Key Brain Function Involved in Scene Facilitation Effect

Scientists at the University of Southern California have pinned down the region of the brain responsible for a key survival...

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·April 9, 2011·2 min read

People Control Thoughts Better When They See Their Brain Activity

As humans face increasing distractions in their personal and professional lives, University of British Columbia researchers have discovered that people...

Featured Neuroethics Neuroscience

·April 7, 2011·3 min read

Technique for Letting Brain Talk to Computers Now Tunes in Speech

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have adapted brain-computer interfaces to listen to regions of the brain that control speech.