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·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.

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·April 5, 2011·1 min read

Scientists Develop New Technology for Stroke Rehabilitation

Devices which could be used to rehabilitate the arms and hands of people who have experienced a stroke have been...

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·April 1, 2011·3 min read

What the Brain Saw

The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurons in...

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·March 9, 2011·4 min read

Neural Network Model of 10 Neuron Visual Processing Circuit Created

Neurobiology research combining laser scanning and electron microscopy, novel neuroimaging techniques and neural network modeling is providing new insight into how real neural circuits may behave.

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·January 24, 2011·4 min read

Neural Networks Forget Information Quickly

Researchers have figured out the speed that neural networks in the cerebral cortex can delete sensory information is a bit...

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·January 10, 2011·2 min read

Gene Translation Targeted in Huntington’s Disease Research

Huntington’s disease research using simple organisms such as baker’s yeast has yielded new information about underlying mechanisms of Huntington’s disease...

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·December 14, 2010·4 min read

Feeling Robotic Arms Improves Brain Machine Interfaces

Proprioception feedback of a robotic arm helped improve the performance of monkeys using brain machine interfaces to control a computer cursor. When the monkeys were fit with exoskeletons that provided arm movements synchronized with the cursor movement, control of the cursor improved by 40%.

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·December 11, 2010·3 min read

Data on What Colors Flowers Appear to Bees

A database on what colors flowers appear to be viewed as by bees has been collected and is freely searchable. The data is collected in the Floral Refelctance Database also known as FReD.

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·November 2, 2010·2 min read

Single N-type Calcium Channel May Enable Neurotransmitter Release

Computational neuroscience research provides new information on the N-type calcium channel and synaptic transmission. The computational neuroscience model investigated shows that a single open N-type calcium channel's current may be sufficient to enable neurotransmitter release.

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·October 27, 2010·5 min read

Human Thought Can Voluntarily Control Neurons in Brain

Neuroscience research involving epileptic patients with brain electrodes surgically implanted in their medial temporal lobes shows that patients learned to consciously control individual neurons deep in the brain with thoughts.

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·October 25, 2010·5 min read