News tagged with cerebral cortex
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Brain study reveals how successful students overcome math anxiety
Using brain-imaging technology for the first time with people experiencing mathematics anxiety, University of Chicago scientists have gained new insights into how some students are able to overcome their fears and succeed ...
Neuroscience
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Does a bigger brain make for a smarter child in babies born prematurely?
New research suggests the growth rate of the brain's cerebral cortex in babies born prematurely may predict how well they are able to think, speak, plan and pay attention later in childhood. The research is published in the ...
Neuroscience
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Two-dimensional learning: Viewing computer images causes long-term changes in nerve cell connections
Viewing two-dimensional images of the environment, as they occur in computer games, leads to sustained changes in the strength of nerve cell connections in the brain. In Cerebral Cortex, Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan and An ...
Neuroscience
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Scientists probe connection between sight and touch in the brain
Shakespeare famously referred to "the mind's eye," but scientists at USC now have also identified a "mind's touch."
Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2011 |
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New perspectives on sensory mechanisms
The latest Perspectives in General Physiology series examines the mechanisms of visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile processes that inform us about the environment. The series appears in the September 2011 ...
Medical research
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Researchers produce detailed map of gene activity in mouse brain
A new atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain provides insight into how genes work in the outer part of the brain called the cerebral cortex. In humans, the cerebral cortex is the largest part of the brain, ...
Neuroscience
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Profound reorganization in brains of adults who stutter
Hearing Beethoven while reciting Shakespeare can suppress even a King's stutter, as recently illustrated in the movie "The King's Speech". This dramatic but short-lived effect of hiding the sound of one's own speech indicates ...
Neuroscience
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Study: Alzheimer's disease symptoms more subtle in people over 80
A new study suggests that the relationship between brain shrinkage and memory loss in Alzheimer's disease changes across the age spectrum. The research is published in the August 10, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the me ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 10, 2011 |
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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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Brain differences between humans and chimpanzees linked to aging
Chimpanzees, the closest living relatives to humans, do not experience a decrease in brain volume as they age like humans do, according to a study by George Washington University researcher Chet Sherwood and his colleagues. ...
Neuroscience
Jul 25, 2011 |
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New research reveals brain network connections
Research conducted by Maria Ercsey-Ravasz and Zoltan Toroczkai of the University of Notre Dame's Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), along with the Department of Physics and a group of ...
Neuroscience
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Competition between brain cells spurs memory circuit development
Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System have for the first time demonstrated how memory circuits in the brain refine themselves in a living organism through two distinct types of competition between cells.
Neuroscience
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Moral responses change as people age
Moral responses change as people age says a new study from the University of Chicago.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 03, 2011 |
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Changes in brain circuitry play role in moral sensitivity as people grow up
(Medical Xpress) -- People's moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study at the University of Chicago that combined brain scanning, eye-tracking and behavioral measures ...
Neuroscience
May 27, 2011 |
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Autism changes molecular structure of the brain, study finds
For decades, autism researchers have faced a baffling riddle: how to unravel a disorder that leaves no known physical trace as it develops in the brain.
Genetics
May 25, 2011 |
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