When you are driving a car, your brain is taking in an enormous amount of visual information and using it to make driving decisions, such as when to brake or change lanes. The brain needs to determine what kind of information ...
Jan 8, 2021
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Paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a gunshot wound when he was 21, Erik G. Sorto now can move a robotic arm just by thinking about it and using his imagination.
May 21, 2015
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Working memory—the ability to temporarily store information for decision making and guiding behavior—is impaired in psychotic disorders.
Jul 15, 2019
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Researchers have investigated the shared and unique neural processes that underlie different types of long-term memory: general semantic, personal semantic and episodic memory.
Nov 22, 2023
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Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified a new pathway by which several brain areas communicate within the brain's striatum.
Mar 3, 2015
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Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain-computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover ...
Aug 23, 2017
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By training mice to perform a sound identification task in a virtual reality maze, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have identified striking contrasts in how groups of neurons ...
Jul 19, 2017
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Think about all the things you are doing at this moment. As your eyes scan across the lines of this article, maybe your brain is processing the smell of coffee brewing down the hall and the sound of leaf blowers outside your ...
Nov 10, 2014
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Our brain's changing structure, not simply getting older and wiser, most affects our attitudes to risk, according to new research.
Dec 13, 2016
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Researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have provided new insights into the functional role of the PPC in decision-making. They report compelling evidence showing that the posterior ...
May 8, 2019
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