A group of physicists, computational scientists and biologists at the Stanford University argue in a new study that a series of phenomena previously thought to be artifacts of normal vision in fact play a very significant role in the way we perceive motion.
The investigation was carried out on fruit flies. The sma... |
13 September 2011
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For a long time, scientists have been interested in determining how the human brain goes about ordering the body to move. Understanding this is essential for explaining why some people at times react faster to a situation than their peers. Planning movement is an essential process the human brain is capable of, but a... |
16 August 2011
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that neurons control the physical movements of the human body. But the processes underlying this ability have remained a mystery to experts for many years. A new study throws more light on the issue.For a long time, researchers have observed that neurons that control motion tend... |
9 November 2010
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A newly developed software allows scientists to carry out a detailed analysis of cockroaches' movements, opening the way to future exploring or rescuing robots that would be able to walk on any kind of ground and even look through debris.Until now, many researchers tried to analyze exactly the way that cockroach... |
28 October 2010
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According to a new study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), babies who are taught how to swim from a very early age tend to exhibit a number of advantages later on in life, even when they turn five years old. The research team says that the small ones tend to have better balance, and to b... |
7 May 2010
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One of the ever-diminishing set of traits that are believed to be uniquely human is called chronesthesia. The concept refers to the ability each of us has of traveling through time subjectively, inside our own heads. This is something that has not yet been proven in any other animal, though admittedly devising an exp... |
30 January 2010
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Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and the University of Aberdeen, in the United Kingdom, have recently published a new study, arguing that human language and dolphin behavior have similar traits, as far as brevity goes. They set off in their line of reasoning from the law of brevity in hu... |
31 July 2009
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