Neuroscience

The Emotional Life Of Bees

Most of us don’t have a problem attributing emotions to primates, dogs, horses and other vertebrates. But what about invertebrates? That seems less obvious. They have smaller, less complex brains, but is that enough to boldly claim they have no emotions? ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 4 2011 - 1:22am

Altered States Or In A Coma- You Still Dream, Says Study

In patients with seriously altered states of consciousness, there is also the puzzle about dreaming.   Do ‘vegetative’ patients (also known in clunkier, politically correct fashion as patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness) or minimally conscious ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2011 - 12:03pm

Want Better Memory? Prepare Your Brain

A study on activity in a the parahippocampal cortex (PHC) found people will remember a visual scene when the brain is more active. The PHC, which has previously been linked to recollection of visual scenes, wraps around the hippocampus, a part of the brain ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2011 - 11:21am

I'm Not Feeling Very Free Willy- on Consciousness as a Construct

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Blog Post - Keith Adams - Sep 8 2011 - 10:54am

Do High-Calories Foods Actually Look Different To Obese People?

The number of individuals who are obese and suffer with its associated health problems has continued to rise, even being called an epidemic. Is it genetics?  The dream of cheap food finally being realized? Or are we slaves to marketing? Researchers from Y ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2011 - 1:16pm

Yawning Cools The Brain? The Thermoregulatory Hypothesis

Think someone is bored if they yawn? Perhaps their brain is just overheating. A study led by Andrew Gallup, a postdoc in Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, says yawning frequency varies with the seasons and that pe ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2011 - 6:01pm

Genes Discovered That Repair Neurons

After a thorough two-year investigation, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Oregon have identified over 70 genes that play a role in the repair of neurons after injury, specifically when it comes to the growth of axons. A massive genetic sc ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Sep 22 2011 - 8:53am

What Makes Songs Singable? The Science Answer

Researchers recently monitored the behavior of thousands of people as they sang along to more than a thousand tunes and say they have uncovered the common traits in songs that are most 'catchy'. That's right. If you like to song along to som ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2011 - 7:34pm

Music-Based Cartoons Boost Verbal IQ In Kids

Musical cartoons can boost verbal intelligence?  We'll hiatus Science 2.0 and start watching "Phineas&Ferb" right now. Researchers writing in  Psychological Science say pre-schoolers improved their skill after only 20 days of classroom ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2011 - 4:20pm

Monkeys Use And Feel Objects- Using Only Their Brains

It's "Second Life"...for monkeys.  And a lot more real.   Scientists have demonstrated a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body- they learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and even identify th ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2011 - 3:31pm