Tag: neuroscience

It's a stunning breakthrough for neuroprosthetics

It’s a small study, but it could change everything for neurodegenerative diseases.

A new study confirms the idea: the sound from wind turbines just doesn't make a difference.

It seems that animals simply love to play.

The bonobos eagerly pointed out treats to humans who didn’t know where they were, but when humans had watched the ...

For now, humans remain slow thinkers. We dream faster than we speak. We see more than we can process and ...

This new brain-computer interface offers a glimpse into the future for millions with motor impairments.

There's a reason why viewers can't look away from Vermeer's masterpiece.

When you step into the voting booth, you might think you're making a rational choice. But what if I told ...

Researchers have shown that an essential protein involved in Alzheimer’s causes cells to overheat, which may explain how the disease ...

These viruses can alter our gut microbiome to improve brain function.

Perpetrators of horrendous crimes could avoid the death penalty because of their brainwaves.

Whether you're a college student hoping to improve your grades, a professional wanting to achieve more at work, or an ...

Certain brain patterns can forecast what kind of video becomes popula.

Your brain is an inexhaustible source of secure passwords – but you might not have to remember anything.

A winding discussion about neuroscience, technology, and mouse mazes.

Matter over mind.

And it can run Donkey Kong. Can your brain do that? Didn't think so.

Just like space, the human brain has plenty of uncharted territory.

Photo: e-manonline.com Like a sticking nail, Alzheimer's has been irritating neuroscientists for decades. After so many years and billions worth ...

What is creativity? Although definitions vary, one might be inclined to say that creativity, ultimately, is anything that has to ...

(c) Backyard Brains Through the halls of TedxDetroit last week, participants were introduced to an unfamiliar and unlikely guest - ...

A group of international researchers may have reached a breakthrough moment after they successfully eliminated schizophrenia symptoms in mice after ...

Meet Susan Barry. She's an accomplished neurobiologist and a professor of biological studies at Mount Holyoke College. For 48 years of ...

In an incredible feat of neuroscience and communications, researchers at Duke University School of Medicine formed a link between pairs of ...

A screen capture from a simulation movie of Spaun in action shows the input image on the right. The output ...

First initiated in 2008 by IBM, the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program whose final goal is that ...

Freestyle rapping is perhaps the most prized skill in hip hop - it is the ability to make rhymes on ...

How many times did you find yourself anticipating a certain event shortly before it happened?

The pyramids, art, all of the world's great inventions, literary works, just about any valuable intellectual work can be traced ...

The filaments created by a slime mold, along with the slime left behind on travel paths. These gooey deposits allows ...

Neuroscientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle have created an atlas of the human brain, which highlights the activity of ...

Someone whose been driving for 20 years, let's say, in the United States and somehow ends up driving a car ...

According to the Fluoride Action Network there are at present 24 independent studies which have a direct link between fluoride ...

Nothing short of extraordinary, two people paralyzed from the neck down controlled a robotic arm to perform actions of various ...

The most complex object on Earth is the human brain. However, even though it's intertwined by billions of nerve fibers ...

When the brain deems an experience meaningful enough, it will transfer that information from short-term storage, where typically information like ...

From a certain age onward, humans seem to process information at a slower pace - learning new things becomes more difficult, ...

Mixing in a typical fMRI brain scanner with advanced computer modeling simulations, scientists at the University of California have managed to ...

Remarkably enough, scientists from Tel Aviv University in Israel, have manged to implant an artificial cerebellum in a rat's brain, ...

A team of neuroscientists from Stanford University have managed to create a remarkably tiny device capable of monitoring brain activity ...

Researchers from Princeton University recently published a study in which they show how they've been able to use functional magnetic ...

Brain-Art competition is an annual celebration of the beauty and creativity of artistic renderings emerging from the neuroimaging community. Last ...

According to a new study by scientists from University College London, it seems people who find optical illusion solving easier ...

A team of neuro-scientists have managed to restore lost memories to rats by activating a part of their brains through ...

Brain surgeons must have the best sense of humor in the whole scientific community. Seems like a team of German ...

It's somewhat evidently observable that the elderly have more trouble focusing or multitasking than young people, but a recent study ...

Similar to genomics, the science which maps our genetic background, "connectomics" is a new emerging science which is becoming very ...

Just like any muscle in your body, if not used, the brain starts to degrade as time passes; this has ...

The latest study conducted by researchers from the Duke University Medical Center was performed on two groups of (old and ...