Size matters: Brain processes 'big' words faster than 'small' words
(Medical Xpress)—Bigger may not always be better, but when it comes to brain processing speed, it appears that size does matter.
Sep 27, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—Bigger may not always be better, but when it comes to brain processing speed, it appears that size does matter.
Sep 27, 2013
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If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him. However, if the bully moved out of town, you would gradually cease to fear ...
Sep 18, 2013
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The fact that taller people also tend to be slightly smarter is due in roughly equal parts to two phenomena—the same genes affect both traits and taller people are more likely than average to mate with smarter people and ...
Aug 27, 2013
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A mother's perceived social status predicts her child's brain development and stress indicators, finds a study at Boston Children's Hospital. While previous studies going back to the 1950s have linked objective socioeconomic ...
Aug 9, 2013
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The human brain has 100 billion neurons, connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world around us, plan for the future, and control our actions and movements. MIT neuroscientist Sebastian Seung wants ...
Aug 7, 2013
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine offer an explanation for why we all don't get Alzeimer's disease (AD)—a trick of nature that in most people maintains critical separation between ...
Aug 7, 2013
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A new study from neuroscientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine provides the first novel insights into the neural origins of hot flashes in menopausal women in years. The study may inform and eventually ...
Jul 15, 2013
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Neurobiologists at Heidelberg University have identified calcium in the cell nucleus to be a cellular "switch" responsible for the formation of long-term memory. Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model, the ...
Jul 9, 2013
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Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified the neuronal circuits in the spinal cord of mice that control the ability to produce the alternating movements of the legs during walking. The study, published ...
Jun 30, 2013
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A study of vocal impersonations has shown for the first time how speech production and voice perception systems in the brain interact to influence the way our voices sound. The research, supported by the Wellcome Trust, marks ...
Jun 19, 2013
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