News tagged with brain areas
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Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter
New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 04, 2011 |
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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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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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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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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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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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Reading the brain without poking it
Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2009 |
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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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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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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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Rigorous visual training teaches the brain to see again after stroke (w/Video)
By doing a set of vigorous visual exercises on a computer every day for several months, patients who had gone partially blind as a result of suffering a stroke were able to regain some vision, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 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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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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Size matters: Length of songbirds' playlists linked to brain region proportions
Call a bird "birdbrained" and they may call "fowl." Cornell University researchers have proven that the capacity for learning in birds is not linked to overall brain size, but to the relative size and proportion of their ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Birdsong independent of brain size
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brains of all vertebrates display gender-related differences. In songbirds, for example, the size of the brain areas that control their singing behaviour could be linked to the size of ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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