News tagged with neuroimaging techniques

How we know a dog is a dog: Concept acquisition in the human brain

A new study explores how our brains synthesize concepts that allow us to organize and comprehend the world. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 24th issue of the journal Neuron, uses behavioral and neuroi ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New technique opens door to early Alzheimer's diagnosis

A new diagnostic technique which may greatly simplify the detection of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1