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Neuroscience:

The illusion of time: Perceiving the effect before the cause

Category: Neuroscience

A temporal illusion in which an effect is perceived after its cause reveals details of how visual events enter conscious awareness

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Phantom limbs can contort into impossible configurations

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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A pictorial history of neurotechniques

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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Lasers used to write false memories onto the fruit fly brain

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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Mice navigate a virtual reality environment

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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Surgery on conscious patients reveals sequence and timing of language processing

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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Alzheimer's fish go head to head in the Nikon Small World Competition

Category: Neuroscience

Beautiful images from the 2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

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The virtual body illusion and immersive Second Life avatars

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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Visual analgesia: Seeing the body reduces pain

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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Circadian and social cues regulate sodium channel trafficking in electric fish

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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