The living fossils of brain evolution
A bird and a plane -- NYU receives grant to develop crow-sized autonomous plane
New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop a bird-sized, self-flying plane that could navigate through both forests and urban ...
Apr 20, 2011
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NeuroImage: Multiplexing in the visual brain
Imagine sitting in a train at the railway station looking outside: Without analyzing the relative motion of object contours across many different locations at the same time, it is often difficult to decide ...
Mar 24, 2011
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Neuropsychologist proves that some blind people 'see' with their ears
Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that ...
Mar 16, 2011
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Parts of brain can switch functions: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The ...
Feb 28, 2011
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The blind also have a Stripe of Gennari
Nerve bundles in the visual cortex of the brain in blind people may process the sense of touch.
Feb 22, 2011
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Brain's visual circuits do error correction on the fly
(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's visual neurons continually develop predictions of what they will perceive and then correct erroneous assumptions as they take in additional external information, according to new ...
Dec 07, 2010
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How the brain's architecture makes our view of the world unique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain.
Dec 05, 2010
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Scientists show universality in the brain evolution
Obedient sensory neurons
Using monkey electrophysiology, Dr. Koida and Dr. Komatsu (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) found that task demand altered the response of the inferior temporal neurons.
Oct 26, 2010
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Scientists closer to grasping how the brain's 'hearing center' spurs responses to sound
Just as we visually map a room by spatially identifying the objects in it, we map our aural world based on the frequencies of sounds. The neurons within the brain's "hearing center" -- the auditory cortex -- are organized ...
Oct 18, 2010
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Research discovers how the deaf have super vision
Deaf or blind people often report enhanced abilities in their remaining senses, but up until now, no one has explained how and why that could be. Researchers at The University of Western Ontario, led by Stephen Lomber of ...
Oct 10, 2010
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Researchers find the blind use visual brain area to improve other senses
People who have been blind from birth make use of the visual parts of their brain to refine their sensation of sound and touch, according to an international team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Georgetown University ...
Oct 06, 2010
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Archer fish can see like mammals (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to see objects oriented differently to the background, which is known as orientation-based saliency, has long been thought to be confined to mammals, but a new study has found ...
Sep 15, 2010
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Researchers identify new neurological deficit behind lazy eye
Researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science have identified a new neurological deficit behind amblyopia, or "lazy eye." Their findings, which appear in the most recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, shed a ...
Sep 10, 2010
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