At a glance, you can recognize a friend's face whether they are happy or sad or even if you haven't seen them in a decade. How does the brain do this—recognize familiar faces with efficiency and ease despite extensive variation ...
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The human brain is extremely complex, containing billions of neurons forming trillions of synapses where thoughts, behavior and emotion arise. However, when an individual is performing a particular task, not many but only ...
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Carnegie Mellon University is embarking on a five-year, $12 million research effort to reverse-engineer the brain, seeking to unlock the secrets of neural circuitry and the brain's learning methods. Researchers will use these ...
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A study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University investigated the brain's neural activity during learned behavior and found that the brain makes mistakes because it applies incorrect inner beliefs, or internal models, about ...
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Japanese researchers first identified the characteristics of facial expression recognition of children with ADHD by measuring hemodynamic response in the brain. They showed that children with ADHD showed significant hemodynamic ...
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(Medical Xpress)—People who donate kidneys to strangers have significantly different brain structures than those who don't.
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Learning a new skill is easier when it is related to an ability we already have. For example, a trained pianist can learn a new melody easier than learning how to hit a tennis serve.
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The world grows increasingly more chaotic year after year, and our brains are constantly bombarded with images. A new study from Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint project between Carnegie Mellon University ...
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Why does a relentless stream of subjective experiences normally fill your mind? Maybe that's just one of those mysteries that will always elude us.
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Joanne Miller, Matthews Distinguished University Professor and chair of Northeastern's Department of Psychology, was recently recognized for her pioneering research on human language processing in the field of speech perception. ...
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