News tagged with brain mapping

Nanotools for neuroscience and brain activity mapping

(Medical Xpress)—The ambitious and controversial Brain Activity Map (BAM), initiative instituted by a small group of researchers last year, has been steadily gaining momentum. Earlier this week, a proof ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Brain mapping shows auto experts recognize cars like people recognize faces

When people – and monkeys – look at faces, a special part of their brain that is about the size of a blueberry "lights up." Now, the most detailed brain-mapping study of the area yet conducted has confirmed ...

Neuroscience created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New model show how the brain is organized to process odor information

Just like a road atlas faithfully maps real-word locations, our brain maps many aspects of our physical world: Sensory inputs from our fingers are mapped next to each other in the somatosensory cortex; the ...

Neuroscience created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Cerebellar neurons needed to navigate in the dark

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study by scientists in France has revealed that the cerebellum region of the brain plays an important role in the ability to navigate when visual cues are absent, and is the first ...

Neuroscience created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Game of Japanese chess reveals how experts develop their capacity for rapid problem-solving

(Medical Xpress)—The superior capability of experts to rapidly solve problems depends largely on their intuition, and it has long been known that this is related to experience and training. Although many ...

Neuroscience created Mar 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing really is believing

(Medical Xpress) -- Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team's pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault?

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study shows that individual brain cells track where we are and how we move

(Medical Xpress)—Leaving the house in the morning may seem simple, but with every move we make, our brains are working feverishly to create maps of the outside world that allow us to navigate and to remember ...

Neuroscience created May 03, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Strengthening speech networks to treat aphasia

Aphasia, an impairment in speaking and understanding language after a stroke, is frustrating both for victims and their loved ones. In two talks Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at the conference of the American ...

Neuroscience created Feb 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insight into why haste makes waste

Why do our brains make more mistakes when we act quickly? A new study demonstrates how the brain follows Ben Franklin's famous dictum, "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."

Neuroscience created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain's map of space falls flat when it comes to altitude

Animal's brains are only roughly aware of how high-up they are in space, meaning that in terms of altitude the brain's 'map' of space is surprisingly flat, according to new research.

Medical research created Aug 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Rewired visual input to sound-processing part of the brain leads to compromised hearing

Scientists at Georgia State University have found that the ability to hear is lessened when, as a result of injury, a region of the brain responsible for processing sounds receives both visual and auditory inputs.

Neuroscience created Aug 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the mind can map negative spaces around the body

(Medical Xpress)—The brain's perception of space can determine whether a part of a body which occupies that space is either healthy or "neglected".

Neuroscience created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover surprising complexities in the way the brain makes mental maps

Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10. And each is different, according to new research from the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, at the Norwegian ...

Neuroscience created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Study reveals how the brain categorizes thousands of objects and actions

Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially in the brain?

Neuroscience created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists have new help finding their way around brain's nooks and crannies

Like explorers mapping a new planet, scientists probing the brain need every type of landmark they can get. Each mountain, river or forest helps scientists find their way through the intricacies of the human ...

Medical research created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain mapping

Brain mapping is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps.

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