News tagged with brain areas
Related topics: brain , brain activity , brain regions , brain images , neurons
Watching curvaceous women feels like drugs to men: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been known that men find an "hourglass" figure the most attractive shape for the female body, and now scientists have found out why.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 25, 2010 |
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Brain's problem-solving function at work when we daydream
A new University of British Columbia study finds that our brains are much more active when we daydream than previously thought.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 11, 2009 |
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Good conversation results in a 'mind meld'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying human conversation have discovered the brains of listeners and speakers become synchronized, and this "neural coupling" makes for effective communication. In essence, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Scientists crack brain's codes for noun meanings
Two hundred years ago, archaeologists used the Rosetta Stone to understand the ancient Egyptian scrolls. Now, a team of Carnegie Mellon University scientists has discovered the beginnings of a neural Rosetta ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 13, 2010 |
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A Single Neuron Can Change the Activity of the Whole Brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- The pulsing of a single neuron can switch a brain’s waves from the equivalent of a big ocean swell to ripples on a pond, according to new research from Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 01, 2009 |
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Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Ego City: Cities organized like human brains
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities are organized like brains, and the evolution of cities mirrors the evolution of human and animal brains, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Brain abnormality found in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Disconnect Between Brain Regions in ADHD
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two brain areas fail to connect when children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder attempt a task that measures attention, according to researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and M.I.N.D. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 11, 2010 |
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Specific brain areas for sex, money
A team of French researchers headed by Jean-Claude Dreher of the Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive in Lyon, France, has provided the first evidence that the orbitofrontal cortex (located in the anterior ventral ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Where unconscious memories form
A small area deep in the brain called the perirhinal cortex is critical for forming unconscious conceptual memories, researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain have found.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Brain processes written words as unique 'objects'
A new study provides direct experimental evidence that a brain region important for reading and word recognition contains neurons that are highly selective for individual real words. The research, published by Cell Press ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Dynamical theory and novel 4-D colorimetric method reveal modus operandi of intact living brain
For the brain to achieve its intricate functions such as perception, action, attention and decision making, neural regions have to work together yet still retain their specialized roles. Excess or lack of ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists discover long-term potentiation in the olfactory bulb
Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of Neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the neurosciences program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, are the first to discover ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 03, 2009 |
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Social wasps show how bigger brains provide complex cognition
Across many groups of animals, species with bigger brains often have better cognitive abilities. But it's been unclear whether overall brain size or the size of specific brain areas is the key.
Apr 11, 2011 |
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