Medical research
How a newborn baby sees you
A newborn infant can see its parents' expressions at a distance of 30 cm. For the first time researchers have managed to reconstruct infants visual perception of the world.
Jun 29, 2015
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Neuroscience
How our sense of touch is a lot like the way we hear
(Medical Xpress)—When you walk into a darkened room, your first instinct is to feel around for a light switch. You slide your hand along the wall, feeling the transition from the doorframe to the painted drywall, and then ...
Dec 11, 2012
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Neuroscience
How the mind can map negative spaces around the body
(Medical Xpress)—The brain's perception of space can determine whether a part of a body which occupies that space is either healthy or "neglected".
Dec 19, 2012
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Neuroscience
Newly discovered neural network gets visual and motor circuits in sync
A fruit fly walks on a small styrofoam ball fashioned into a floating 3D treadmill. The room is completely dark, and yet, an electrode recording visual neurons in the fly's brain relays a mysterious stream of neural activity, ...
May 6, 2022
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Neuroscience
The logic underlying recurrent activity in the primary visual cortex
In mammals, the perception of visual stimuli is supported by the coordinated activity of thousands of neurons in different brain regions. The images perceived by the eyes are represented in the brain, passing various steps ...
Neuroscience
Novel 'top-down' mechanism repatterns developing brain regions
Dennis O'Leary of the Salk Institute was the first scientist to show that the basic functional architecture of the cortex, the largest part of the human brain, was genetically determined during development. But as it so often ...
Jul 22, 2013
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New possibility of studying how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain at different ages
Alzheimer's disease can lead to several widely divergent symptoms and, so far, its various expressions have mainly been observed through the behaviour and actions of patients. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have ...
Aug 31, 2017
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Neuroscience
Study sheds new light on a classic question in psychology and neuroscience
A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing "in our head" can change our actual perception. ...
Jun 27, 2013
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Medical research
Motion sickness drug worsens motion perception
A new study led by Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers found that oral promethazine, a drug commonly taken to alleviate motion sickness, temporarily worsened vestibular perception thresholds by 31 percent, lowering one's ...
Apr 24, 2017
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Neuroscience
Developing brain regions in children hardest hit by sleep deprivation
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich has studied the effects of acute sleep deprivation in children for the first time. They discovered that the brain in five to 12-year-olds responds differently to sleep deprivation ...
Oct 4, 2016
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