In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at the Cumming School of Medicine's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the University of Calgary have discovered that stress transmitted from others can change the brain in...
The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like the teddy bear on the left.
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If you think self-driving cars can't get here...
Scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to stimulate neurons deep in the brain to evoke body movements of mice. This image shows a section of a mouse brain with injected magnetic nanoparticles (colored red) covering targeted cells in the striatum.
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Our sense of vision and smell alone are enough to make us aware that someone has a disease even before it breaks out. And not only aware – we also act upon the information and avoid sick people.
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The image attempts to illustrate something that cannot be imaged -- a universe of multi-dimensional structures and spaces. On the left is a digital copy of a part of the neocortex, the most evolved part of the brain. On...
Extracellular needle-electrode with a diameter of 5 ?m mounted on a connector. Credit: (C) Toyohashi University of Technology. All Rights Reserved.
Single 5?m diameter needle electrode block modules for unit recordings in vivo
A research team in the Department of Electrical...
When it comes to memory, it's more than just "location, location, location." New research suggests that the brain doesn't store all memories in 'place cells', the main type of neuron in the hippocampus, a structure crucial for navigation and...
A depiction of the traditional view of the split brain syndrome (top) versus what the researchers actually found in two split-brain patients across a wide variety of tasks (bottom). Credit: Yair Pinto
A new research study contradicts the established view...
One of the 59 volunteers in a distracted driving study by the University of Houston and Texas A&M Transportation Institute sits in a high-fidelity driving simulator.Credit: Malcolm Dcosta
While much has been made about the dangers of texting and driving,...
It may sound like sci-fy, but mind reading equipment are much closer to become a reality than most people can imagine. A new study carried out at D'Or Institute for Research and Education used a Magnetic Resonance (MR) machine...
People who play video games for even a small amount of time have superior perception and attention skills to those who don't play at all, new research suggests.
A study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University found participants who played...
