News tagged with motor area
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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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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University of Cincinnati study finds needle biopsies safe in 'eloquent' areas of brain
After a review of 284 cases, specialists at the Brain Tumor Center at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Neuroscience Institute have concluded that performing a stereotactic needle biopsy in an area of the brain associated ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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First neuroimaging study examining motor execution in children with autism reveals new insights
In the first neuroimaging study to examine motor execution in children with autism, researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute have uncovered important new insight into the neurological basis of autism. The study, published ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading
Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 27, 2009 |
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