Physicists at Radboud University Nijmegen have shown for the first time that the concentration of acetone in breath is a suitable marker of fat-burning during physical activity. Their study, conducted on walkers taking part ...
Jul 9, 2014
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Researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center+ (Maastricht UMC+) and the MAASTRO Clinic have developed a new medical imaging analysis method to predict the risk of dying of cancer in patients. For the first time, they ...
Jun 3, 2014
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Alpha waves appear to be even more active and important than neuroscientist Ole Jensen (Radboud University) already thought. He postulates a new theory on how the alpha wave controls attention to visual signals. His theory ...
May 23, 2014
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It is easier to learn something new if you can link it to something you already know. A specific part of the brain appears to be involved in this process: the medial prefrontal cortex. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ...
May 12, 2014
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By predicting our eye movements, our brain creates a stable world for us. Researchers used to think that those predictions had so much influence that they could cause us to make errors in estimating the position of objects. ...
Apr 16, 2014
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While observing fellow train passengers eagerly swiping their touch screens, neuroscientist Sara Fabbri got the idea to explore the neurocomputational basis of the swiping, tapping and pinching movements that people make ...
Mar 6, 2014
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When listening to music or learning a new language, auditory perceptual learning occurs: a process in which your recognition of specific sounds improves, making you more efficient in processing and interpreting them. Neuroscientist ...
Mar 6, 2014
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Some people perform better and others worse when promised a high bonus. Brain researcher Esther Aarts of the Donders Institute in Nijmegen has demonstrated for the first time that the amount of dopamine in the brain plays ...
Feb 14, 2014
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Left-handed people really do have different brains and genes from right-handed people. Yet left-handed people are almost never included as study subjects in scientific research. Therefore in an article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, ...
Feb 14, 2014
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A combination of two tasks for implied sexual associations has distinguished – with more than 90 per cent certainty – a group of paedophilic men from a group of men with a sexual preference for adult women. In the long ...
Apr 25, 2013
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