News tagged with electrical activity

Neurons that can multitask greatly enhance the brain's computational power, study finds

Over the past few decades, neuroscientists have made much progress in mapping the brain by deciphering the functions of individual neurons that perform very specific tasks, such as recognizing the location ...

Neuroscience created May 20, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Melon focus headband turns to Kickstarter for rollout plans

(Medical Xpress)—What if the quality of your work depends more on your focus on the piano keys or canvas or laptop than your musical or painting or computing skills? If target users can be convinced, they ...

Neuroscience created May 17, 2013 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Grammar errors? The brain detects them even when you are unaware

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured elusive hard evidence that people indeed detect ...

Neuroscience created May 13, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Memory vs. Math: Same brain areas show inverse responses to recall and arithmetic

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists have historically relied on neuroimaging – but not electrophysiological – data when studying the human default mode network (DMN), a group of brain regions with lower activi ...

Neuroscience created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Medical myth: Flatlining patients can be shocked back to life

Beep….beep……….beep……….beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. "We're losing him. Out of my way, nurse!" The quick-thinking young doctor charges the defibrillator paddles and places them on the chest of ...

Cardiology created May 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Off the grid: Environmental novelty changes hippocampal firing patterns

(Medical Xpress)—The brain's two hippocampal formations – one in each hemisphere's temporal lobe, medial to the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle and typically referring to the dentate gyrus, the ...

Neuroscience created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Brain-to-brain interface allows transmission of tactile and motor information between rats

Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats for the first time, enabling them to communicate directly to solve simple behavioral puzzles. A further test of this work successfully linked ...

Neuroscience created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Rats' and bats' brains work differently on the move

A new study of brain rhythms in bats and rats challenges a widely used model - based on studies in rodents - of how animals navigate their environment. To get a clearer picture of the processes at work in ...

Neuroscience created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study indicates reverse impulses clear useless information, prime brain for learning

(Medical Xpress)—When the mind is at rest, the electrical signals by which brain cells communicate appear to travel in reverse, wiping out unimportant information in the process, but sensitizing the cells ...

Neuroscience created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Going places: Rat brain 'GPS' maps routes to rewards

While studying rats' ability to navigate familiar territory, Johns Hopkins scientists found that one particular brain structure uses remembered spatial information to imagine routes the rats then follow. ...

Neuroscience created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers gain new insight into prefrontal cortex activity

The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired knowledge about various functions necessary for everyday life. But exactly how new information is incorporated ...

Neuroscience created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

By decoding brain activity, scientists read monkeys' inner thoughts

Anyone who has looked at the jagged recording of the electrical activity of a single neuron in the brain must have wondered how any useful information could be extracted from such a frazzled signal.

Neuroscience created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Monkeys feel, move virtual objects using only their brains (w/ video)

(Medical Xpress) -- In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ ...

Neuroscience created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study: Infants process faces long before they recognize other objects

(Medical Xpress)—Using brain-monitoring technology, Stanford psychology researchers have discovered that infant brains respond to faces in much the same way as adult brains do, even while the rest of their ...

Neuroscience created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA warning against high dose antidepressant prescription may be unwarranted, study finds

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warning that high doses of the antidepressant citalopram can cause potentially serious abnormal heart rhythms might be doing more harm than good.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 03, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electrical phenomena

Electrical phenomena are commonplace and unusual events that can be observed which illuminate the principles of the physics of electricity and are explained by them. Electrical phenomena are a somewhat arbitrary division of electromagnetic phenomena.

Some examples are

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