News tagged with sensory input
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Banking on predictability, the mind increases efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like musical compression saves space on your mp3 player, the human brain has ways of recoding sounds to save precious processing power.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Sensory detection and discrimination: Study reveals neural basis of rapid brain adaptation
(PhysOrg.com) -- You detect an object flying at your head. What do you do? You probably first move out of the way — and then you try to determine what the object is. Your brain is able to quickly switch ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 22, 2010 |
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New study shows brain's ability to reorganize
(PhysOrg.com) -- Visually impaired people appear to be fearless, navigating busy sidewalks and crosswalks, safely finding their way using nothing more than a cane as a guide. The reason they can do this, researchers suggest, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Phantom limbs learn impossible tricks
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has shown that body images can be formed independently of external sensory inputs, and that the phantom limbs of amputees can be trained to carry out tasks that would be impossible ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2009 |
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'Can you hear me now?' Researchers detail how neurons decide how to transmit information
There are billions of neurons in the brain and at any given time tens of thousands of these neurons might be trying to send signals to one another. Much like a person trying to be heard by his friend across ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Web-crawling the brain
The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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The brain as a 'task machine'
The portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all, according to a new study published online on February 17 in Current Biology. Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read words ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Brain's clock influenced by senses
Humans use their senses to help keep track of short intervals of time according to new research, which suggests that our perception of time is not maintained by an internal body clock alone.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 20, 2011 |
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'Quake' reveals how eyes and ears keep us balanced
(PhysOrg.com) -- An earthquake machine has been used by vision scientists to confirm that instead of working in isolation, our visual and middle-ear systems work together, to give us an improved sense of balance.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Odors classified by networks of neurons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), are unraveling how odors are processed by the brain. As they report in Nature, odors in the olfactory brain are cl ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2010 |
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A mother's touch: Study shows maternal stimuli can improve cognitive function, stress resilience
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI child neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Tallie Z. Baram has found that maternal care and other sensory input triggers activity in a baby's developing brain that improves cognitive function ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 04, 2010 |
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Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Researchers identify signals triggering dendrite growth
A study in worms that are less than a millimetre long has yielded clues that may be important for understanding how nerves grow.
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Gentle touch may aid multiple sclerosis patients
(PhysOrg.com) -- While gripping, lifting or manipulating an object such as drinking from a cup or placing a book on a shelf is usually easy for most, it can be challenging for those with neurological diseases such as multiple ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 14, 2009 |
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A matter of taste: Food ads work better if all senses are involved
(PhysOrg.com) -- Do potato chips taste better if an advertisement describes their crunchy sound? Is popcorn more flavorful if its buttery aroma is also depicted in an ad? Researchers at the University of Michigan say yes.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2009 |
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