News tagged with neural response

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Face the facts: Neural integration transforms unconscious face detection into conscious face perception

(Medical Xpress)—The apparent ease and immediacy of human perception is deceptive, requiring highly complex neural operations to determine the category of objects in a visual scene. Nevertheless, the human ...

Neuroscience created Dec 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Babies show visual consciousness at five months

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by scientists in France and Denmark has identified a neurological marker in the brain of babies as young as five months that is associated with visual consciousness, or the ...

Neuroscience created Apr 19, 2013 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Laughter perception networks in brain different for mocking, joyful or ticklish laughter

A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys a wealth of auditory and social information. These different kinds of laughter also spark different connections ...

Neuroscience created May 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Group settings can diminish expressions of intelligence, especially among women

In the classic film "12 Angry Men," Henry Fonda's character sways a jury with his quiet, persistent intelligence. But would he have succeeded if he had allowed himself to fall sway to the social dynamics of that jury?

Neuroscience created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Psychopaths are not neurally equipped to have concern for others, study shows

Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Autistic adults have unreliable neural responses, study finds

Autism is a disorder well known for its complex changes in behavior—including repeating actions over and over and having difficulty with social interactions and language. Current approaches to understanding ...

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

Your brain on Big Bird: Sesame Street helps to reveal patterns of neural development

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.

Neuroscience created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain biology tied to social reorientation during entry to adolescence

A specific region of the brain is in play when children consider their identity and social status as they transition into adolescence—that often-turbulent time of reaching puberty and entering middle school, ...

Neuroscience created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Birdsong study pecks theory that music is uniquely human

(Medical Xpress)—A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, published in Frontiers of Evolutionary Ne ...

Neuroscience created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

How our sense of touch is a lot like the way we hear

(Medical Xpress)—When you walk into a darkened room, your first instinct is to feel around for a light switch. You slide your hand along the wall, feeling the transition from the doorframe to the painted ...

Neuroscience created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Music training has biological impact on aging process

Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first to provide biological evidence that ...

Neuroscience created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Scientists identify brain's 'molecular memory switch'

Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, reveal ...

Neuroscience created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Changes in patterns of brain activity predict fear memory formation

Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered that changes in patterns of brain activity during fearful experiences predict whether a long-term fear memory is formed. The research results have recently ...

Neuroscience created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment

What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.

Neuroscience created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast