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Human echolocation activates visual parts of the brain

Category: Neuroscience

WE all know that bats and dolphins use echolocation to navigate, by producing high frequency bursts of clicks and interpreting the sound waves that bounce off objects in their surroundings. Less well known is that humans can also learn to...

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A whiff of early brain evolution

Category: Evolutionary Biology

Two tiny fossilized skulls provide clues about the events that led to early evolution of the mammalian brain

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Sleepy brain waves predict dream recall

Category: Neuroscience

THE patterns of brain waves that occur during sleep can predict the likelihood that dreams will be successfully recalled upon waking up, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The research provides the first evidence of...

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Speed of illusory body movements alters the passage of time

Category: Neuroscience

Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London now show that biological motion is processed unconsciously, and that the speed of apparent motion alters the perception of time

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Gut bacteria may influence thoughts and behaviour

Category: Microbiology

THE human gut contains a diverse community of bacteria which colonize the large intestine in the days following birth and vastly outnumber our own cells. These intestinal microflora constitute a virtual organ within an organ and influence many bodily functions....

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Looking into Ramachandran's broken mirror

Category: Autism

I visited Vilayanur S. Ramachandran's lab at the University of California, San Diego recently, and interviewed him and several members of his lab about their work. Rama and I talked, among other things, about the controversial broken mirror hypothesis, which...

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Artificial nerve grafts made from spider silk

Category: Neuroscience

A team of surgeons from Germany shows that artificial nerve grafts made from spider silk enhance regeneration of peripheral nerves over distances of up to 6cm.

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Tough and tender: How touch affects sex categorization

Category: Neuroscience

LOOK at the photograph on the right. Does it show the face of a man or a woman? There's no right answer - the photo has been manipulated to look sexually ambiguous and can be perceived as either. But according...

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The woman who knows no fear

Category: Neuroscience

A 44-year-old woman with a rare form of brain damage can literally feel no fear, according to a case study published yesterday in the journal Current Biology. Referred to as SM, she suffers from a genetic condition called Urbach-Wiethe Disease....

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An interview with Suzanne Corkin

Category: Neuroscience

SUZANNE Corkin is a professor of behavioural neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked with the famous amnesic patient H.M. for more than 45 years. I interviewed her at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in...

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