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March 30, 2010
Category: Neuroscience
Transcranial magnetic stimulation of a specific region of the brain's right hemisphere impairs certain types of moral judgements
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March 23, 2010
Category: Vintage Illustrations
Click to enlarge images ARTISTS employ a number of different techniques to represent implied motion in two-dimensional works. One of these, commonly used in posters, comics and animation, is the affine shear effect, whereby a moving object is depicted as...
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March 22, 2010
Category: Archaeology
THIS is the left cerebral hemisphere of an 18-month-old infant who lived some 800 years ago. Such finds are extremely rare, because nervous tissue is soft and normally begins to decompose soon after death, so this specimen is unique in...
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March 17, 2010
Category: Animal Behaviour
SNAKES have a unique sensory system for detecting infrared radiation, with which they can visualize temperature changes within their immediate environment. Using this special sense, they can image the body heat radiating from warm-blooded animals nearby. This enables them to...
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March 13, 2010
Category: Neuroscience
A neuroimaging study by UCL researchers shows that individual memory traces can be decoded and distinguished from one another
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March 10, 2010
Category: Neuroscience
New research shows that amyloid-beta is a potent antibiotic, raising the possibility that Alzheimer's is caused by the immune system's response to brain infection
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March 3, 2010
Category: Neuroscience
Two new studies provide strong evidence that the ability to recognize faces is inherited independently of other cognitive functions
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March 2, 2010
Category: Blogging
I 'M pleased to announce that my post about dinosaur brains and behaviour is featured in Open Lab 2009, the annual anthology of the best science writing on blogs. The book has just been published and is now available at...
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