Neurons

Web Portals and Mouse Mazes: How Your Brain Sorts the World

Ben Thomas | Posted 04.29.2013 | Science

Read More: Intelligence, Neuroscience, Neurons, Brain, Biology, Neuropsychology, Neural-Networks, Science, Evolution, Brain Science, Psychology, Evolutionary Biology, Learning, Mind, Neural Networks, Science News

Why are we so good at forming categories? The short answer is, complex categories help us make long-term, large scale predictions about the world.

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Scans Spotlight Brain Region Responsible For Car Key Snafus

Posted 03.22.2013 | Science

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By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/22/2013 09:48 AM EDT on LiveScience The saying that it's impossible to step into the same ri...

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Why Do Neurons Die So Quickly When Deprived of Oxygen?

Quora | Posted 05.20.2013 | Home

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This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Paul King, Computational Neuroscientist, Software Entrepreneur This is a reasonable question...

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Invalid Files and Language Learning: Your Brain's Interoperable World

Ben Thomas | Posted 05.05.2013 | Science

Since computers have evolved from room-sized mainframes into menageries of smart phones and tablets and office desktop machines, interoperability has become a watchword for forward-thinking communications experts.

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Ghoulish Study Seen As Good News For Fans Of Life Extension

Posted 02.26.2013 | Science

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By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 02/25/2013 03:05 PM EST on LiveScience Brain cells can live at least twice as long as the organ...

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Step One in Fixing the Brain: Understand How It Works

Sebastian Seung | Posted 02.09.2013 | Technology

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To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

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How Your Sense of Rhythm Makes You Hallucinate

Ben Thomas | Posted 09.11.2012 | Science

Read More: Rhythm, Neuroscience, Brain, Neurons, Optical Illusions, Electroencephalography, Brain Science, Psychology, Perception, Mind, Hallucinations, Science News

A new research project has people seeing ghosts. By flashing an image on a screen in synch with signal rhythms in certain brain areas, scientists are making people hallucinate the image even after it's disappeared. This happens for a simple reason.

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Consciousness Is Everywhere

Christof Koch | Posted 08.15.2012 | Science

Read More: Human-Exceptionalism, Memory and Cognition, Human Consciousness, Neurons, Consciousness, Cognition, Science News

The belief in human exceptionalism, so strongly rooted in the Judeo-Christian view of the world, flies in the face of all evidence for the structural and behavioral continuity between animals and people.

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The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (and Thousands of Others)

Laurie Nadel | Posted 09.26.2012 | Home

Read More: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, Neuroplasticity, Glial Cells, Neurons, Brain, Cognitive Defects, Learning Disabilities, Arrowsmith School, Home News

If you or anyone you know has a learning disability, you will be riveted by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's journey.

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Neuroscience Meets Ancient Japanese Scrolls

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.23.2012 | Arts

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Greg Dunn is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and an artist passionate about Japanese minimalist scrolls. While these inte...

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(PHOTOS) Einstein's Brain On Display In London

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 03.28.2012 | Science

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LONDON -- Like zombies, human beings can't get enough of brains. A new London exhibition explores that fascination, displaying everything from mummif...

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How Exercise Can Stimulate The Birth Of New Neurons

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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Imagine, that rather than spending your day engaged in intellectual stimulation in front of your computer, you are instead living in the wild like our caveman ancestors.

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If Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer, Can It Connect You To The World?

Ervin Laszlo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Read More: Internet, Religion, Quantum, Esp, Neurons, Brain, Extrasensory, Entanglement, Computer, Akashic, Religion News

I'd like you to consider the possibility that nature embodies within herself a kind of Internet, and that through our brain we might be able to communicate with it.

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Investment Choices Linked To Areas of Brain

newsweek.com | Nikhil Swaminathan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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A region of the midbrain called the ventral striatum may be partly to blame for the fact that millions of Americans fell prey to risky financial gambl...

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Personalized Stem Cells: Researchers Create Disease-Specific, Individualized Human Stem Cells

ABC News | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

For the first time, scientists have proven that embryonic-like stem cells that are specific to both a person and to a disease can be manufactured usin...

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