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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently completed a new scientific study on the different neural effects that various types of ads and commercials have. Such links have been only marginally understood before.
Psychologists and neurologists have known for a long time that dif... |
21 September 2011
05:43 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine (WUSM) has just discovered a new way to go about understanding the patterns of electrical activity in the brain.
When analyzing the functions of the brain, researchers usually keep in mind two very important things – when ... |
8 February 2011
02:34 GMT |
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We sleep to rest and regain our strength, and the benefits of a good night's sleep seems obvious, but what is it about sleep that improves our brain performance, at the cellular levels, that's an old debate to which a new study tried to put an end.The opinions are divided into two camps: one believes that s... |
11 January 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Most new parents adopt baby talk when addressing their children, but they should know that their babies, even if they are too young to talk, understand many of the words adults say, since their brains process them in a grown-up way.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, used MRI and MEG technologi... |
8 January 2011
04:31 GMT |
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People suffering from Alzheimer’s also have serious blood flow problems in the brain, and a team of scientists in Bristol might have just come up with a solution.They have discovered some of the processes responsible for the leaky blood vessels within the brain, and their findings could turn existing drugs into... |
7 December 2010
08:17 GMT |
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There are many people who have trouble telling apart individuals from different races, and a team of psychologists of the University of Glasgow, UK, have finally found out why.It appears that the confusion comes from a brain mechanism that is responsible for the 'other-race effect', and this finding could p... |
4 November 2010
11:58 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Berkeley Lab managed to get a unique insight into how the brain coordinates stimuli inputs from the body to make split-second decisions, and react, when following an object of interest. The work was conducted on zebrafish, which are oftentimes used as animal proxies for humans in such... |
30 October 2010
05:58 GMT |
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A team of MIT researchers have identified a 'chain reaction' in neurons, very similar to a cascade of falling dominoes, that controls the timing of the song of the zebra finch and which could be similar to human brain activity regulating the precise timing demanded by complex tasks.The reason for which the ... |
25 October 2010
05:13 GMT |
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The hair brush that reads your mind is the latest invention coming from a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas at Arlington.It is called the 'brush optrode,' and its the latest, most sensitive technology in terms of brain imaging.Doctors often measure and moni... |
20 October 2010
03:04 GMT |
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A team of researchers recently used a form of medical imaging to gain new insight into how people and animals alike learn from their competitors, as well as from failure and successes.The investigators used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to look at the brain activity patterns of test subjects, as the individuals we... |
13 October 2010
10:40 GMT |
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Our brain chooses people we like over shared interests, found a new study led by graduate student Fenna Krienen and senior author Randy Buckner, PhD, of Harvard University, focusing on the brain region that processes social information.Friends trigger more response in people's brains than strangers do, and this ... |
13 October 2010
09:17 GMT |
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A link between rejection by a romantic partner and brain activity associated with reward, motivation and addiction, has been established by a team of researchers at the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology and of neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, in New York.Clinical professo... |
7 July 2010
08:40 GMT |
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Researchers from the Tufts University Department of Psychology, led by professor Holly A. Taylor, have just revealed the results of the studies they recently carried out, pointing to the consequences that a low-fat dieting plan might have on the brain activity. Their conclusions, summed up in a study called “Lo... |
12 December 2008
10:33 GMT |
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A new scientific study endeavored to discover exactly how smell contributes to long-term memory formation. People usually have sudden recollection of past events when entering a room where a particular smell is present. Some reported that this reminded them of events or people that had been part of their life as far ... |
17 October 2008
07:57 GMT |
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It's not easy to concentrate after a long sleepless night, everybody knows that. It has been scientifically proven more than once that sleep deprivation actually decreases the activity of the brain, while after having slept, it reaches its highest levels. Washington University School of Medicine researchers have... |
1 August 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Neuroscientists call 'brain noise' the random activity occurring in the human brain that does not bear any importance to the mental functions. Usually, children tend to have increased brain noise, but as an individual matures into an adult, the level decreases as the intuitive functions of the brain slowly ... |
4 July 2008
11:18 GMT |
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