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Twine about brain studies. Neuroscience is a field that is devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the nervous system.
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Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers findLost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the right in females. Scientists have long known that a small, ...
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Science Centric | News | Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processingA study in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorisation (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in ...
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Basics - A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task - NYTimes.comA Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task If you’ve ever had a problem with rodents and woken up to find that mice had chewed their way through the Cheerios, the Famous Amos, three packages of Ramen noodles, and even that carton of baker’s yeast you had bought in a fit of “Ladies ...
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Don’t! The secret of self-control by Jonah Lehrer | The New YorkerChildren who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults. (...) A researcher then made Carolyn an offer: she could either eat one marshmallow right away or, if she was willing to wait while he stepped out for a few minutes, she could have two marshmallows when he ...
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Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes: Scientific AmericanThanks to an unusual opportunity to implant electrodes into the brains of alert adults, researchers have described the sequence and timing of distinct steps in language processing to a finer degree than previous methods have allowed. The brain's language center, named Broca's area after the ...
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Neuroscience articles indexParticularly read: Robosemantics- (all articles are PDF)wildcat added 4 months ago
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A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes -- Spezio et al. 3 (4): 344 -- Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceElection outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate's visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence voting. Yet, it is not known whether the effect of appearance on voting is more strongly influenced by ...Darren Schreiber added 6 months ago
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New Schizophrenia Gene DiscoveredNever mind the headline - the point is finding many bits that contribute to the chemical side of schizophrenia.Günther Mulder added 9 months ago
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PLoS Biology - Brain Growth Receptors Control LifespanAnd if we find Methusaleh was short, there's your proof... The octocentenarian.Murray Peat added 11 months ago
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