(Medical Xpress) -- Being told that a work of art is authentic or fake alters the brain’s response to the visual content of artwork, Oxford University academics have found.
Dec 6, 2011
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(Medical Xpress) -- Over the years pianists develop a particularly acute sense of the temporal correlation between the movements of the piano keys and the sound of the notes played. However, they are no better than non-musicians ...
Nov 24, 2011
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In everyday life, attention and awareness appear tightly interwoven. Attending to the scissors on the right side of your desk, you become aware of their attributes, for example the red handles. Vice versa, the red handles ...
Nov 10, 2011
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Shakespeare famously referred to "the mind's eye," but scientists at USC now have also identified a "mind's touch."
Sep 8, 2011
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(Medical Xpress) -- The human voice is as characteristic as a face – a friend can often be identified by a message on an answering machine, even if he or she forgot to mention their name. The main region for face recognition ...
Aug 24, 2011
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An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer's disease, a Johns Hopkins University study has found.
Jul 20, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre for Brain and Mind can now determine the action a person was planning, mere moments before ...
Jun 29, 2011
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A University of Colorado Boulder research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what ...
Jun 27, 2011
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By taking advantage of a "body swap" illusion, researchers have captured the brain regions involved in one of the most fundamental aspects of self-awareness: how we recognize our bodies as our own, distinct from others and ...
Jun 16, 2011
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For the first time researchers have been able to watch what happens to the brain as it loses consciousness. Using sophisticated imaging equipment they have constructed a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes while an anaesthetic ...
Jun 11, 2011
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