Neuroscience

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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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·January 19, 2017·4 min read

What Humans and Primates Both Know When It Comes to Numbers

A new study reports primates have the ability to distinguish between small and large quantities of objects, regardless of the surface area on which the objects are placed.

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·January 18, 2017·4 min read

How the Human Brain Decides What Is Important and What’s Not

A new study sheds light on how the brain helps us to learn and make decisions in the real world.

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·January 18, 2017·4 min read

Mandarin Makes You More Musical?

Researchers report tone language experience is associated with advanced musical pitch processing in children.

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·January 18, 2017·4 min read

Adoptees Advantaged By Birth Language Memory

A new study reports adoptees who had early life exposure to their native language may subconsciously retain retain fragments of the language structure, even if no conscious memory of the language remains.

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·January 18, 2017·4 min read

How Estrogen Modulates Fear Learning

Women with lower estrogen levels may be more susceptible to developing PTSD, a new study reports.

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·January 17, 2017·5 min read

First Cell Culture of Live Adult Human neurons Shows Potential of Brain Cell Types

Researchers successfully grew adult human neurons from tissue donated from surgery patients. The researchers were able to identify at least 5 brain cell types and the potential proteins each cell could make.