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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh show that some cognitive skills are enhanced in time-space synaesthetes, and suggest that time-space synaesthesia may underly the savant-like abilities of individuals with super memory syndrome
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from Northwestern University report that auditory brainstem activity is modulated by specific voice characteristics, and that this modulation is impaired in children with developmental dyslexia.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Category: Neuroscience
Beautiful images from the 2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
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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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