News tagged with brain mapping
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
Aug 07, 2011 |
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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
Dec 05, 2012 |
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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
Aug 09, 2011 |
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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
Dec 19, 2012 |
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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
Mar 22, 2013 |
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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
Mar 22, 2013 |
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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
Feb 01, 2012 |
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What's your name again? Why it might not be your brain's ability but your lack of interest that causes a bad memory
(Medical Xpress) -- Most of us have experienced it. You are introduced to someone, only to forget his or her name within seconds. You rack your brain trying to remember, but can't seem to even come up with the first letter. ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 20, 2012 |
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Is Obama's plan to map the human brain this generation's equivalent to landing a man on the moon?
President John F. Kennedy's mission in 1960 was to land a man on the moon. President Bill Clinton made cracking the human genome one of his top priorities. Now, President Barack Obama says a detailed map ...
Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2013 |
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Researchers map, measure brain's neural connections
Medical imaging systems allow neurologists to summon 3-D color renditions of the brain at a moment's notice, yielding valuable insights. But sometimes there can be too much detail; important elements can go ...
Neuroscience
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Why the middle finger has such a slow connection
Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain -- we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by ...
Neuroscience
Feb 07, 2012 |
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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
Mar 19, 2012 |
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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
May 03, 2013 |
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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
Oct 21, 2011 |
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The cerebellum as navigation assistant: A cognitive map enables orientation
The cerebellum is far more intensively involved in helping us navigate than previously thought. To move and learn effectively in spatial environments our brain, and particularly our hippocampus, creates a "cognitive" map ...
Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2011 |
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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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