News tagged with neural representations
Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Color is normally thought of as a fundamental attribute of an object: a red Corvette, a blue lake, a pink flamingo. Yet despite this popular notion, new research suggests that our perception ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Why we learn more from our successes than our failures
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Neural noise created during binocular rivalry
Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 19, 2009 |
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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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