Brain

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,... →

05/02/2016 - 13:02

Why are young men like this? Part of it seems to depend on testosterone, acting on their brain during early foetal life. Exposure in the... →

30/12/2015 - 13:55

How do we make this astonishing journey? Until recently, neuroscientists were in the dark about this ‘first age of the brain’. But the... →

21/12/2015 - 14:35

Participants with high television viewing (more than three hours per day for more than two-thirds of the visits) during 25 years were more... →

21/11/2015 - 14:10

Romanes waited until his dog was distracted by another hound, then darted away in a mad zigzag. When the dog returned, it realised Romanes... →

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