Skilled readers can quickly recognize words when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts which functions separately from an area that processes the sounds of written words, say Georgetown University Medical Center...
Cooperation -- between family members, friends, coworkers and even governments around the world -- is viewed as a cornerstone of human society. But not everyone cooperates equally, as anyone who's worked on a group project knows. And one factor...
Hands-free is just as distracting as hand-held phones while driving -- University of Sussex research. Credit: University of Sussex
Driving while talking on a hands-free phone can be just as distracting as talking on a hand-held mobile phone, psychologists at...
Chronic marijuana use disrupts the brain's natural reward processes, according to researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas.
In a paper published in Human Brain Mapping, researchers demonstrated for the first time with functional...
Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to a review of existing scientific literature, led by the University of Cambridge. The study also found that people from Western Europe and North America are more...
Karyotype for trisomy Down syndrome. Notice the three copies of chromosome 21. Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute
Compared with the early 1990s, babies born with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) have a lower risk of developing serous heart problems, according...
A new study in the model organism of tadpoles reveals how the brain develops the ability to sense when different sensory inputs are simultaneous rather than close in time. Credit: Courtesy Carlos Aizenman
Most people encounter most things by sensing...
Immunostaining after two weeks of differentiation of neural progenitor cells into neurons.
Credit: Neha Rani
Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself multiple times in order to fit...
Completing a game of "Super Mario Brothers" can be hard -- very, very hard.
That's the conclusion of a new paper from researchers at MIT, the University of Ottawa, and Bard College at Simon's Rock. They show that the problem...
Researchers in China have analyzed the network heterogeneity of the suprachiasmatic nucleus to ultimately reverse age-related decline in circadian rhythm.
If you've ever felt groggy the morning after traversing time zones, you can thank the temporary mismatch between your body's...
This density map of the cerebral cortex of a mouse shows which neurons get activated when the animal explores of a new environment. The lit up region at the center (white and yellow) represents neurons associated with the mouse's...
