Neuroscience

Sexual Image And Drug Craving Signals Linked In Brain Imaging Study

feel about these drug-related images is accurately predicted by how strongly their brains respond ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2008 - 2:52am

Taxi Drivers Have 'GPS' In Their Brains

expected landmarks, look at the view and worry about the thoughts of their customers and other drivers. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2008 - 9:24am

Never The Same Image Twice- Humans Learn Recognition, And Robots Can Too

that a person makes about 100 million eye movements per year, this mechanism could be fundamental to ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2008 - 9:30pm

Republican Or Democrat? Your Political Leanings May Be A Result Of Your Physiology

experiences obviously play a part. "We're just talking about tendencies, it's far from ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2008 - 6:13pm

Better Learning From Mistakes- The Inflection Point Happens At Age 12, Says Study

children respond better to reward than to punishment.' She can also imagine how this comes about ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2008 - 10:14am

Brain 'Starvation' As We Age May Be Alzheimer's Trigger

cell death in an acute, dramatic event," Vassar said. "What we are talking about here is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 24 2008 - 12:48pm

Newborn Brain Cells Add A Relative Time Stamp, Says Study

lasts forever. Even the most highly strung nerve cells that used to get excited by just about anything ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2009 - 3:01pm

Serotonin- Why Desert Locusts Go From Solitary To Swarms

swarm. Of the 8,000 known species of grasshoppers throughout the world only about 12 are swarm-forming ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2009 - 6:24pm

Figuring Out Short Term Perceptual And Memory Storage Processing

that information about the precise feature a person is remembering is represented in the visual ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2009 - 1:53pm

The Source Of All Humor? Alastair Clarke's 8 Patterns Of Recognition

that tool is good for. "Basically humour is all about information processing, accelerating ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2009 - 11:09am