Brain

21/07/2016 - 12:37

For the study, scientists tapped a dataset of 1,187 healthy children and young adults ranging in age from 3 to 20 years old for whom brain-... →

21/07/2016 - 12:17

So can a zest for garlic be learned prenatally? Peter Hepper of the University of Belfast decided to find out. He and colleagues tested... →

02/06/2016 - 12:24

Sixth sense? Most Americans believe in the supernatural. In fact, one survey found that almost one-third of people believe in extrasensory... →

28/05/2016 - 13:17

“We focused on SLC6A4, which encodes the serotonin transporter, because we already know a good deal about the importance of this gene and... →

13/05/2016 - 17:51

Nevertheless, numerous lines of research, particularly on athletes, have given us compelling insights into the physiological and... →

22/04/2016 - 15:28

One, somewhat humbling, explanation is that we are all “cognitive misers” – to save time and energy, our brains use intuition rather than... →

31/03/2016 - 15:00

Both Eagleman and Naber had their brain activity monitored via an electroencephalogram (EEG). The difference was stark. Eagleman’s brain... →

31/03/2016 - 14:30

There is also a deeper message laid bare within our futurist projections. Our notions about the emergence of intelligent machines expose... →

22/03/2016 - 15:45

Our curses may not even use the same part of the brain the rest of our vocabulary inhabits. Swearing is handled by the brain differently... →

13/03/2016 - 17:31

MICrONS, as a part of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, is an attempt to push forward the status quo in brain-inspired computing. A great... →

06/03/2016 - 15:24

The journey to love as we know it today began with sex, which was one of the first things life on Earth figured out how to do. Sex began as... →

29/02/2016 - 13:33

The training involved a non-emotional “executive control task” of identifying whether a target arrow points to the right or to the left,... →

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