- Men Do Have A Better Sense Of Direction Than Women, But Why?
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... in wayfinding tasks in a virtual environment. Using fMRI, the researchers saw that men in the study took several shortcuts, ... Women have better local memory fMRI images of the brain showed that both men and women use large areas of the ...
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- Brains With Autism Adapt Differently During Implicit Learning
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... learning. Using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging, Schipul and Just found that the brain activation of ASD ... After equalizing the task structure learning and using the fMRI scanner, the two groups' brain activation differed while they were ...
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- Recognizing The Basic Structure Of Language Is Not Unique To The Human Brain
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... up language. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) revealed that in both groups a corresponding region of the brain - the ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2015 - 7:16am - 0 attachments
- Emotional Response To Sounds Shows Up In Brain Scans
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... Vigeant and Lawless tested five subjects each in both an fMRI simulator and a real machine for about 70 images in each machine. At the ... musical snippets with reverberation. They also note that fMRI statistical analysis is relatively complex and can vary depending on a ...
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- Brain Scans May Help Predict Recovery From Coma
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... participants had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans taken of their brains. For those in a coma, the scans were ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 15 2015 - 3:38pm - 0 attachments
- Mental Maps: Route-learning Changes Brain Tissue
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... in the brain, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which analyzes brain activity. The researchers found that the group ... performed some of the first mind-reading studies using fMRI, they created some of the first cognitive tutors, helped to develop the ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2015 - 3:48pm - 0 attachments
- Mental Health Linked To Music Listening Habits
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... music using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at the AMI Center of Aalto University. Analysis showed that males who ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2015 - 3:00am - 0 attachments
- Brain Size Matters When It Comes To Remembering
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... a brain scanner (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: fMRI ) and mapped out the visual parts of their brain. This allowed us to ...
Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2015 - 11:54am - 0 attachments
- Why Suspenseful Movies Keep Your Eyes Glued To The Screen
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... in action, Bezdek had his subjects lie down in an fMRI machine, a noisy, massively magnetic doughnut able to track brain blood ... hear the films’ crucial soundtracks above the din of the fMRI machine, subjects wore fiber-optic headphones and earplugs. And to get a ...
Article - Michael Greshko - Aug 28 2015 - 12:23pm - 0 attachments
- The Neuroscience Of Why Screams Are So Terrifying
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... researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor the brain activity of 20 volunteers as they listened to a wide ...
Article - Charles Choi - Jul 20 2015 - 8:30am - 0 attachments
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