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What the Brain Sees After the Eye Stops Looking
Science & Tech  (tags: Brain, Eye, Vision, Science, illusion )

Katie
- 199 days ago - medicalxpress.com
When we gaze at a shape and then the shape disappears, a strange thing happens: We see an afterimage in the complementary color. Now a Japanese study has observed for the first time an equally strange illusion...
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Is Your Brain Making You Fat
Science & Tech  (tags: Is, your, brain, making, you, fat )

Agnes
- 208 days ago - abc.net.au
We're getting fatter, but it's not all our fault, says physiologist Professor Michael Cowley.Spend enough time in public places or even watching television and it's clear that people are becoming more overweight. Indeed rates of obesity are rising in bot
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Scientists Reveal Molecular Sculptor of Memories
Science & Tech  (tags: Molecular Sculptor, Memories, Brain, Science )

Maria
- 239 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers working with adult mice have discovered that learning and memory were profoundly affected when they altered the amounts of a certain protein in specific parts of the mammals' brains.
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Images Capture Moment Brain Goes Unconscious
Science & Tech  (tags: Images, brain, unconsciousness, anaesthetic injection )

Nancy
- 347 days ago - bbc.co.uk
The new imaging method detects the waxing and waning of electrical activity in the brain moments after an anaesthetic injection is administered.
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Jellyfish Do Have Brains and There Is Much More to Them Then Originally Thought
Science & Tech  (tags: Jellyfish, Brain, Research, Nature, Science )

Katie
- 353 days ago - nytimes.com
There was no risk of that, but when we parted, the jellyfish left behind a kiss of its own on the palm of my hand: a sticky film that was surprisingly hard to remove. Thanks, my little honey moon.
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Blind People Echolocate With Visual Part of Brain
Science & Tech  (tags: blind, brain, visual part, Health, Science )

Katie
- 366 days ago - cbc.ca
Blind people who navigate using clicks and echoes, like bats and dolphins do, recruit the part of the brain used by sighted people to see, a new study has found.
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Scientists Discover How to Predict Learning Using Brain Analysis
Science & Tech  (tags: Learning, Brain, science, human )

Anna
- 402 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An international team of scientists has developed a way to predict how much a person can learn, based on studies at UC Santa Barbara's Brain Imaging Center.
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The Human Brain Gets a New Map
Science & Tech  (tags: brain, map, human brain, gene )

Angle
- 408 days ago - wired.com
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of writing about the Paul Allen Institute for Brain Science. At the time, the Institute was just beginning a fairly epic undertaking - constructing a precise map of gene expression for the entire human brain.
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Computer Chips Wired With Nerve Cells
Science & Tech  (tags: Technology, Computer Chips, minds, brain, machines )

Anna
- 431 days ago - news.discovery.com
This technology could pave the way for melding minds with machines.Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the sun.
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In People Born Blind, Brain Regions That Usually Process Vision Can Tackle Language
Science & Tech  (tags: Brain, Blind, language, science, Vision )

Katie
- 452 days ago - world.edu
When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis.
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How Love Lasts
Science & Tech  (tags: Love, feelings, people, brain, mind, relationship, science )

Anna
- 470 days ago - news.discovery.com
Nothing compares to the rush of being newly in love. But even after a decade of marriage or more, some people say their love remains intense.And when these people see pictures of their beloved, found a new study, their brains respond in an area associated
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Brain's 'Radio Stations' Have Much to Tell Scientists
Science & Tech  (tags: Brain, Science, Research, Radio Stations, Cognition )

Nancy
- 471 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Like listeners adjusting a high-tech radio, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have tuned in to precise frequencies of brain activity to unleash new insights into how the brain works.
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The Brain Knows What the Nose Smells, But How?
Science & Tech  (tags: brain, nose, smells, scent, receptors )

Deena
- 472 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Mice know fear. And they know to fear the scent of a predator. But how do their brains quickly figure out with a sniff that a cat is nearby?It's a complex process that starts with the scent being picked up by specific receptors in their noses.
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Heads or Tails: Cells' Electricity Decides What to Regenerate
Science & Tech  (tags: electrical signals, brain, science )

Anna
- 474 days ago - sciencedaily.com
For the first time, scientists have shown that specific changes in cell membrane voltage and ion flow are a key determinant in whether an organism regenerates a head or a tail. Biologists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences were able to ....
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20 Fascinating TED Talks All About the Brain
Science & Tech  (tags: TED Talks, Brain, Creativity, Mind, TED )

Katie
- 480 days ago - onlineclasses.org
TED talks explore creativity, and quite a few of these talks have been devoted to thinking creatively about the brain, from brain-modeled supercomputers to brains in love.
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