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October 28, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Some amputees can make their phantom limbs defy the anatomical constraints of the physical body, using visual imagery to make them perform movements which could not possibly be performed by a real physical limb
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October 21, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
The latest issue of MIT Technology Review contains a photo essay by yours truly, in which I look at how techniques used to explore the brain have evolved during the 100 year history of modern neuroscience
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October 20, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from the University of Oxford show that aversive memories in the fruit fly are dependent on a tiny cluster of neurons, and demonstrate that such memories can be implanted by using light to manipulate the cells' activity.
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October 18, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Using an inventive new method in which mice run through a virtual reality environment, researchers from Princeton University have made the first direct measurements of the cellular activity associated with spatial navigation.
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October 16, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Using electrodes implanted into the brains of conscious epileptic patients, researchers reveal that Broca's Area processes different types of language information in a well-defined temporal sequence.
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October 12, 2009
Category: Psychology
Psychologists from Purdue University have found that the success rate of American football field kicks directly affects perception of goal size
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October 9, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Beautiful images from the 2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
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October 8, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Neuroscience takes us one step closer to Second Life avatars which can transfer sensations to the body of the user
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October 7, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from UCL report that seeing one's body while a painful stimulus is applied to it significantly reduces the experience of pain
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October 2, 2009
Category: Animal Behaviour
A group of American researchers reports that circadian and social cues directly affect electrical field strength in a species of electric fish by regulating sodium channel trafficking in cells of the electrical organ.
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