The studies show that playing video games can change how our brains perform, and even their structure.
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Scientists have collected and summarized studies looking at how video games can shape our brains and behavior. Research...
Two Aplysia sensory neurons with synaptic contacts on the same motor neuron in culture after isolation from the nervous system of Aplysia. The motor neuron has been injected with a fluorescent molecule that blocks the activity of a specific...
Most adults can quickly and effortlessly recall as many as 100,000 regularly used words when prompted, but how the brain accomplishes this has long boggled scientists.
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When you look at a picture of a mug, the...
UC San Diego neurosurgeons color code the brain with tractography. The circular object is a tumor.
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Neurosurgeons at UC San Diego Health System are using a new approach to visualize the brain's delicate anatomy prior...
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...
A rat touches a touch stimulus that has appeared in an iPad screen. The visual stimulus has been created by a cognitive brain pattern generated by the rat.
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Brain-machine interfaces represent a solution for...
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers recorded brain activity patterns as subjects listened to stories of human distress.
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When others suffer, we humans empathize. Our feelings of empathy take different forms, such as distress...
Brain patterns in 6 month old babies may predict autism in those at high risk.
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Functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) may predict which high-risk, 6-month old infants will develop autism spectrum disorder by age 2...
Scientists at NIH used electrical recordings to study how the human brain remembers.
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In a pair of studies, scientists at the National Institutes of Health explored how the human brain stores and retrieves memories. One...
This image shows Giant Nudibranch, Dendronotus iris.
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Scientists at Georgia State University have rewired the neural circuit of one species and given it the connections of another species to test a hypothesis about...
Left: the white dot moves from the left to the right side of the screen in 0,5 seconds. The bottom image shows the brain activity pattern in the visual cortex, which is similar to the visual dot stimulus. Right:...
