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Areas of the Brain Process Read and Heard Language Differently
Mar. 7, 2014 The brain processes read and heard language differently. Researchers have been able to determine the affected areas of the brain using speech processing tests with the aid of functional magnetic ... full story -
'Seeing' Bodies With Sound (No Sight Required)
Mar. 6, 2014 People born unable to see are readily capable of learning to perceive the shape of the human body through soundscapes that translate images into sound, according to researchers. With a little ... full story -
Some People Really Just Don't Like Music
Mar. 6, 2014 It is often said that music is a universal language. However, a new report finds that music doesn't speak to everyone. There are people who are perfectly able to experience pleasure in other ... full story -
Learning How to Listen With Neurofeedback
Mar. 6, 2014 When listening to music or learning a new language, auditory perceptual learning occurs: a process in which your recognition of specific sounds improves, making you more efficient in processing and ... full story -
Determination Might Be a Very Human Expression
Mar. 5, 2014 Humans might be using facial expressions of determination as a call for help from others, according to new research. When children and chimpanzees were both given a task that was impossible to solve, ... full story -
What Bat Brains Might Tell Us About Human Brains
Mar. 4, 2014 Could a new finding in bats help unlock a mystery about the human brain? Likely so, say researchers who have shown that a small region within the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the brains of ... full story -
Off With Your Glasses: Visual Crowding Linked to Retina, Brain Processing
Mar. 4, 2014 Middle-aged adults who suddenly need reading glasses, patients with traumatic brain injuries, and people with visual disorders such as "lazy eye" may have one thing in common -- ... full story -
New Evidence Confirms Link Between IQ, Brain Cortex
Mar. 4, 2014 Rate of change in the thickness of the brain's cortex is an important factor associated with a person's change in IQ, according to a collaborative study by scientists in five countries. The ... full story -
Motion-Sensing Cells in Eye Let Brain 'Know' About Directional Changes
Mar. 4, 2014 How do we "know" from the movements of speeding car in our field of view if it's coming straight toward us or more likely to move to the right or left? In a detailed study of the ... full story -
Muscle-Controlling Neurons Know When They Mess Up, According to Research
Mar. 4, 2014 Whether it is playing a piano sonata or acing a tennis serve, the brain needs to orchestrate precise, coordinated control over the body's many muscles. Moreover, there needs to be some kind of ... full story -
New Therapy Helps Improve Audio, Visual Perception in Stroke Patients
Mar. 4, 2014 Stroke is one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide. Many stroke survivors are left with serious health problems. Some patients, for example, find themselves unable to perceive one side ... full story -
Tears and Fears: How Do Emotions Change Our Political Attitudes?
Mar. 3, 2014 Politicians know that turning on the tears can be a vote winner, but how does the political manipulation of our emotions actually work? Researchers explore how emotions such as anxiety, even if their ... full story -
World-Class Orchestras Judged by Sight Not Sound
Mar. 3, 2014 World-class orchestras can be accurately identified by silent video footage of performances, but not through sound recordings, a new study has ... full story -
First Glimpse of Brain Circuit That Helps Experience to Shape Perception
Mar. 2, 2014 How do our memories shape the way sensory information is collected? For the first time, scientists have demonstrated a way to observe how our experiences shape sensory information in awake animals. ... full story -
Brain Differences Linked to Insomnia Identified by Researchers
Feb. 28, 2014 Researchers report that people with chronic insomnia show more plasticity and activity than good sleepers in the part of the brain that controls movement. "Insomnia is not a nighttime ... full story -
Internal Logic: Eight Distinct Subnetworks in Mouse Cerebral Cortex
Feb. 27, 2014 The mammalian cerebral cortex, long thought to be a dense single interrelated tangle of neural networks, actually has a 'logical' underlying organizational principle. Researchers have ... full story -
Mouse Brain Atlas Maps Neural Networks to Reveal How Brain Regions Interact
Feb. 27, 2014 Different brain regions must communicate with each other to control complex thoughts and behaviors, but little is known about how these areas organize into broad neuronal networks. In a new study, ... full story -
Our Memory for Sounds Is Significantly Worse Than Our Memory for Visual or Tactile Things
Feb. 26, 2014 Remember that sound bite you heard on the radio this morning? The grocery items your spouse asked you to pick up? Chances are, you won't. Researchers have found that when it comes to memory, we ... full story -
Research Maze Puts Images on Floor, Where Rodents Look
Feb. 26, 2014 Visual acuity is sharpest for rats and mice when the animals are looking down. Researchers have found that rodents can learn tasks in a fourth to a sixth of the usual number of repetitions when ... full story -
Photopharmacology: Optoswitches Turn Pain Off and Sight on
Feb. 26, 2014 Photoreactive compounds developed by scientists directly modulate nerve-cell function, and open new routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of ... full story -
Language of Love: Matching Conjunctions, Pronouns Could Spell a Match Better Than Good Looks and Fast Cars
Feb. 26, 2014 People who use the same kinds of function words are more likely to find a match, a researcher suggests. After analyzing speed dating results, researchers discovered a positive correlation of ... full story
- 'Seeing' bodies with sound (no sight required)
- Some people really just don't like music
- Learning how to listen with neurofeedback
- What bat brains might tell us about human brains
- Off with your glasses: Visual crowding linked to retina, brain processing
- New evidence confirms link between IQ, brain cortex
- Motion-sensing cells in eye let brain 'know' about directional changes
- Muscle-controlling neurons know when they mess up, according to research
- New therapy helps improve audio, visual perception in stroke patients
- Tears and fears: How do emotions change our political attitudes?
- World-class orchestras judged by sight not sound
- Internal logic: Eight distinct subnetworks in mouse cerebral cortex
- Mouse brain atlas maps neural networks to reveal how brain regions interact
- Our memory for sounds is significantly worse than our memory for visual or tactile things
- Research maze puts images on floor, where rodents look
- Photopharmacology: Optoswitches turn pain off and sight on
- Language of love: Matching conjunctions, pronouns could spell a match better than good looks and fast cars
- Does your iPod make you socially isolated? Study suggests it might
- Stereotactic radio surgery procedure comes to New Mexico
- New research helps explain how social understanding is performed by the brain
- Pointing is infants' first communicative gesture
- Stimulation glove for stroke patients helps improve tactile perception, motor function
- Human and dog brains both have dedicated 'voice areas'
- The way a room is lit can affect the way you make decisions
- Color vision problems become more common with age, study shows
- Patients with oropharyngeal cancer report quality of voice, speech affected post-treatment
- Nothing so sweet as a voice like your own, study finds
- The musical brain: Novel study of jazz players shows common brain circuitry processes both music, language
- 'Smellizing' -- imagining a product's smell -- increases consumer desire
- Brain signals move paralyzed limbs in new experiment
- Newly developed chemical restores light perception to blind mice
- 'Beautiful but sad' music can help people feel better
- Tinnitus study signals new advance in understanding link between exposure to loud sounds and hearing loss
- Brains have switch board to guide behavior in response to external stimuli
- Could action video games help people with dyslexia learn to read?
- Blood clot risk remains higher than normal for at least 12 weeks after women deliver babies
- 'Growth charts' for cognitive development may lead to earlier diagnosis, treatment for children with risk for psychosis
- 'Smelling' with our eyes: Descriptions affect odor perception
- Why white dots appear larger than equal size black dots: How Galileo's visual illusion works in the mind's eye
- Mechanism elucidated: How smell perception influences food intake
- Optogenetic toolkit goes multicolor: Viewing brain functions with light-sensitive proteins
- Cochlear implant with no exterior hardware can be wirelessly recharged
- What makes us human? Unique brain area linked to higher cognitive powers
- Amputee feels in real-time with bionic hand
- A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes
- Eyemusic sensory substitution device enables the blind to 'see' colors and shapes
- We recognize less attractive faces best: How attractiveness interferes with recognition of faces
- Despite burden, Sjφgren's syndrome may not impede function
- Early autism detection: Speech disrupts facial attention in 6-month-old infants who later develop autism
- Individuals with ADHD have communicative difficulty, study finds
- Measuring brain activity in premature infants
- New brain-scanning technique shows when and where the brain processes visual information
- Visual system can retain considerable plasticity after extended blindness
- Super bowl ads score with popular music
- Timing is everything: How the brain links memories of sequential events
- A time for memories: How the brain determines the timing at which neurons in specific areas fire to create memories
- Long-term spinal cord stimulation stalls symptoms of parkinson's-like disease
- Humans can use smell to detect levels of dietary fat
- New avenue to treat diabetes-related vision problems
- Just how do our brains control our arms?
- Changes in brain gray matter volume associated with memory deficits in early Parkinson's disease
- How vision captures sound now somewhat uncertain
- Drugs that weaken traumatic memories hold promise for PTSD treatment
- Image perception in the blink of an eye
- Brain regions 'tune' activity to enable attention
- Speech means using both sides of brain
- Vision and multitasking: Brain can perform more than one function without sacrificing time or accuracy
- In dyslexia, less brain tissue not to blame for reading difficulties
- Study reveals senses of sight, sound separated in children with autism
- Brain structure shows who is most sensitive to pain
- Debunking the sixth sense
- Educated black men remembered as 'whiter'
- Younger people have 'high definition' memories
- Infants show ability to tell friends from foes
- Color-coded cells reveal patchwork pattern of X chromosome silencing in female brains
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