News tagged with parietal cortex

One region, two functions: Brain cells' multitasking key to understanding overall brain function

A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into categories, according to a new study by researchers at the University ...

Neuroscience Mar 06, 2013 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 1 |

Researchers examine the neuroscience of mental fatigue

We all perhaps know the feeling of mental exhaustion, but what does it mean physiologically to have mental fatigue? A new study carried out using brain scans could help scientists uncover the neurobiological mechanisms underlying ...

Neuroscience Dec 10, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Math ability requires crosstalk in the brain

A new study by researchers at UT Dallas' Center for Vital Longevity, Duke University, and the University of Michigan has found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of ...

Neuroscience Aug 29, 2012 | 5 / 5 (9) | 9 |

Highways of the brain: High-cost and high-capacity

A new study proposes a communication routing strategy for the brain that mimics the American highway system, with the bulk of the traffic leaving the local and feeder neural pathways to spend as much time ...

Neuroscience Jun 18, 2012 | 3.7 / 5 (6) | 1 |

Neural balls and strikes: Where categories live in the brain

Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area ...

Neuroscience Jan 15, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2 |

Study: A rich club in the human brain

Just as the Occupy Wall Street movement has brought more attention to financial disparities between the haves and have-nots in American society, researchers from Indiana University and the University Medical ...

Neuroscience Nov 01, 2011 | 4.1 / 5 (10) | 11 |

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 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Don't get math? Researchers home in on the brain's problem

Can't calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart; maybe you can blame your brain - specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. And it could be a problem that has roots not in a failed ...

Neuroscience Oct 05, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0