News tagged with visual areas
Watching curvaceous women feels like drugs to men: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been known that men find an "hourglass" figure the most attractive shape for the female body, and now scientists have found out why.
Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 18, 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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Earth's past, made visible
New visualizations of the Earth from space provide a unique image of how the Earth has changed over the past 750 million years.
May 23, 2011 |
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Human working memory is based on dynamic interaction networks in the brain
A research project of the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki sheds light on the neuronal mechanisms sustaining memory traces of visual stimuli in the human brain. The results show that the maintenance of working ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Decoding funny faces to detect disease
Like Russell Crowe's character in A Beautiful Mind, life is often difficult for the 2.4 million Americans with schizophrenia. A late or incorrect diagnosis and the lack of effective treatment options can ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 04, 2009 |
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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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