February 13, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
What makes us human, and where does this mysterious property of ‘humanness’ come from? Humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, yet there exist obvious behavioral and cognitive differences. Now, researchers have developed a strategy t…
February 12, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Consciousness, from the moment we go to sleep until we wake up, seems to come and go every day. Consciousness can be temporarily abolished by pharmacological agents or more permanently by brain injury. Each of these departures from conscious wakefulnes…
February 12, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Researchers have identified a brain protein at the root of how the brain recovers from stroke. The finding offers a promising avenue for developing therapies that could work even when given beyond the first few hours after a stroke.
February 12, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Love can make us do crazy things. It often prompts us to behave in counterintuitive ways, like, for example, placing the wellbeing of our loved ones above our own. But why?
February 12, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
By discovering the culprit behind decreased blood flow in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s, biomedical engineers at have made possible promising new therapies for the disease.
February 11, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
A part of the brain that maps letters to sounds can acquire a second, visually distinct alphabet for the same language, according to a study of English speakers. The research challenges theoretical constraints on the range of visual forms available to …
February 11, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research reports features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP) that likely enable individuals with this rare ability — shared by Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven — to precisely identify musical notes.
February 11, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Before the age of GPS, humans had to orient themselves without on-screen arrows pointing down an exact street, but rather, by memorizing landmarks and using learned relationships among time, speed and distance. They had to know, for instance, that 10 m…
February 11, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
New research has shown that the spinal cord is able to process and control complex functions, like the positioning of your hand in external space. ‘This research has shown that a least one important function is being done at the level of the spinal cor…
February 11, 2019 by NewsBot - No Comment
Women who take the pill are nearly 10 percent worse at recognizing subtle expressions of complex emotions like pride or contempt, according to new research. Previous research suggests the relationship is causal, but the impact on women’s ability to for…
