(Medical Xpress)—The ease and immediacy with which we recognize familiar objects escapes our notice. However, a novel, ambiguous, or highly complex object requires practice to achieve such perceptual facility. Past perceptual ...
The human brain has distinct and highly specialized functional regions to understand languages, recognize faces and plan ahead. However, neuroscientists must still decipher the high degree of functional specialization observed ...
"Why can't you just relax into it?" is a question many of us have asked in frustration with ourselves or others – be it on the dance floor, the sporting field or in rather more private circumstances. The task typically ...
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Over the years, researchers have learned that the different populations of bacteria that inhabit the gut have significant effects on body functions, including the immune system. The populations of gut bacteria are sometimes ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Unique research into eye-movements of young and old people while reading discovers that word recognition patterns change as we grow older
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(Medical Xpress)—People shouldn't assume that someone who can easily read their feelings always has their best interests at heart.
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This is in line with a recent theory on how our brain works: it is a prediction machine, which continuously compares sensory information that we pick up (such as images, sounds and language) with internal predictions. "This ...
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Scientists have further decoded how mammalian brains perceive odors and distinguish one smell from thousands of others.
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For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.
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Why is it that some chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's, affect both the small intestine and the colon, while others, like ulcerative colitis, are restricted to the colon? In order to solve clinical puzzles ...
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