News tagged with functional magnetic resonance imaging
Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric
Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Intel wants a chip implant in your brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Matter in hand: Jugglers have rewired brains
(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning to juggle leads to changes in the white matter of the brain, an Oxford University study has shown.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 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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What is 'Real'? How Our Brain Differentiates Between Reality and Fantasy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. We know that characters in novels and movies are fictitious, and we also understand that historical figures - even if ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Brain splits to handle two jobs at once
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that the brain handles two tasks at once by dedicating half the brain to one task, and the other half to the second. This means it may not be able to effectively handle ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have been able to communicate with brain-injured patients in "locked states" commonly referred to as persistent vegetative states (PVS). They ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Scientists find explanation for blindsight
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rare phenomenon of blindsight has been known for a long time, but until now has never been understood. People with blindsight are effectively blind through damage to the primary visual ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Love: it's all the same to the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are no differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals or between women and men in terms of the brain systems regulating romantic love, according to new UCL research published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 04, 2011 |
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In The Brain, Early-Stage Intense Passionate Love Seems To Be Universal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Close relationship researchers have previously found that Easterners (those from collectivistic cultures such as China) seem to regard love differently from Westerners (those from individualist ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 28, 2010 |
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New technique offers a more detailed view of brain activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- For neuroscientists, one of the best ways to study brain activity is with a scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which reveals blood flow in the brain.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 01, 2010 |
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Stroke damage to brain may not be permanent, study finds
Brain functions lost after a stroke might not be gone forever.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 27, 2010 |
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People learn new information more effectively when brain activity is consistent, research shows
People are more likely to remember specific information such as faces or words if the pattern of activity in their brain is similar each time they study that information, according to new research from a University of Texas ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional MRI or functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a type of specialized MRI scan. It measures the haemodynamic response related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans or other animals. It is one of the most recently developed forms of neuroimaging. Since the early 1990s, fMRI has come to dominate the brain mapping field due to its low invasiveness, lack of radiation exposure, and relatively wide availability.
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