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...
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Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain's health too -- and that education also has a positive effect.
In a study recently...
A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging math problems.
Published in Psychological Science, researchers combined two analytical strategies to use functional MRI (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain...
A team of scientists has uncovered the neural processes mice use to ignore their own footsteps, a discovery that offers new insights into how we learn to speak and play music.
The research is reported in the journal Nature.
"The ability...
It has often been claimed that humans learn language using brain components that are specifically dedicated to this purpose. Now, new evidence strongly suggests that language is in fact learned in brain systems that are also used for many...
With woodpeckers, the answer's in the question--true to their name, they peck wood. And when they do, they peck hard--with each peck, the bird undergoes a force of 1,200 to 1,400 g's. By comparison, a measly force of 60-100...
The desire for revenge can be the consequence of a feeling of anger. But is this the case at the cerebral level? What happens in the human brain when injustice is felt?
To answer these questions, researchers from the University...
Image is a Z-statistic map threshold at voxel-height probability of P<.001and cluster probability of P<.05 displayed over axial MNIT1 anatomic template. Significant clusters are located in the anterior cingulate cortex, bilateral inferior frontal, inferior parietal and medial temporal gyrl,...
A new study shows that learning a new task past the point of mastery helps protect that learning from interference that could undermine it. The study used a visual task, but may extend to other forms of learning, such...
Financial traders are better at reading their 'gut feelings' than the general population -- and the better they are at this ability, the more successful they are as traders, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge.
'Gut...
A team of researchers from McMaster University has discovered a new technique to examine how musicians intuitively coordinate with one another during a performance, silently predicting how each will express the music.
The findings, published today in the journal Scientific...
