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June 30, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
We are being constantly bombarded with news stories containing pretty pictures of the brain, with headings such as "Brain's adventure centre located". Journalists now seem to refer routinely to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as "mind reading", and exaggerated claims...
Posted by Mo at 6:40 PM • 2 Comments •
June 26, 2008
Category: Technology
Technology pundits speculate that mind control is the future of gaming. They envision that the movements of computer game characters will be controlled not with joysticks but with non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) which monitor the brain's electrical activity and transmit...
Posted by Mo at 8:00 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Animal Behaviour
Nature News has an interesting article by Philip Ball about a dancing cockatoo named Snowball: Aniruddh Patel of the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues say that Snowball's ability to shake his stuff is much more than...
Posted by Mo at 7:39 AM • 2 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: Cinema
Researchers from the Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory at New York University recently carried out a study of the effects of films on viewers' brains.Hasson et al scanned the brains of 45 participants whilst they watched scenes from a number of films...
Posted by Mo at 11:50 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
The forthcoming issue of The New Yorker contains a fantastic article by surgeon and writer Atul Gawande about the neurobiology of itching. The article begins with the extraordinary case of a patient known as M., whose itch, which occurred following...
Posted by Mo at 5:55 AM • 8 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: Art
Common cockles, by Nick Veasey, who "uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art"....
Posted by Mo at 12:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
General anaesthetics activate a heat-sensitive protein found in pain pathways and may exacerbate post-operative pain, according to a new study published online yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
Posted by Mo at 11:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The incredible case of Phineas Gage has now been translated into Spanish....
Posted by Mo at 8:04 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Here are some more new members of the ever-growing online neuroscience community: The Brain and the Sky Illusion Sciences N-Cog-Neato! Neurophilia Neurotonics...
Posted by Mo at 6:50 AM • 2 Comments •
June 23, 2008
Category: Animal Behaviour
In recent years, researchers have found that a wide variety of animal species, many of the cognitive skills that were once thought to be unique to humans. These findings show that we have grossly underestimated the intelligence of other animals,...
Posted by Mo at 9:47 AM • 6 Comments •
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