May 22, 2012
(Medical Xpress) — Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have recently identified in mice the role played by neo-neurons formed in the adult brain. By using selective stimulation the researchers were able to show that these neo-neurons increase the ability to learn and…
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ScienceDaily (May 8, 2012) — Can blindness or other forms of visual deprivation really enhance our other senses such as hearing or touch? While this theory is widely regarded as being true, there are still many questions about the science behind it.
New findings from a Canadian research team…
Source: neurosciencestuff
May 8, 2012
Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, they identify a reaction to…
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ScienceDaily (May 8, 2012) — People of all ages and cultures gesture while speaking, some much more noticeably than others. But is gesturing uniquely tied to speech, or is it, rather, processed by the brain like any other manual action?
Scientists have discovered that actual actions on…
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Play Pong With Brain Waves
As a final project for an electrical and computer engineering course called “Designing With Microcontrollers,” two Cornell students created a brain-computer interface. The BCI allowed them to play Pong with their brain waves and also record and store sleep data. […]
Source: Slate
