From the RIKEN press release via ScienceDaily and ResearchSEA: Imaging data suggest that conscious perception has little to do with the primary visual cortex — the region where visual information enters the brain. From a…
From the University of Southern California press release: It takes two to tango. Two hemispheres of your brain, that is. USC researchers are working to pin down the exact source of creativity in the brain…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Our senses aren’t just delivering a strict view of what’s going on in the world; they’re affected by what’s going on in our heads. A new study…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via Newswise: Mitochondria — subunits inside cells that produce energy — have long been thought to play a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Now Mayo Clinic researchers using genetic mouse…
From the UT Dallas press release: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are distinct disorders with unique characteristics, but they share similarities in social dysfunction. For many years, this similarity resulted in confusion in diagnosis.…
From the University of Kentucky press release via Newswise: A study recently published by the University of Kentucky’s Scott Livingston shows that physiological problems stemming from a concussion may continue to present in the patient…
From the CORDIS Features press release via AlphaGalileo: In the 2009 film Surrogates, humans live vicariously through robots while safely remaining in their own homes. That sci-fi future is still a long way off, but…
From the New York University press release: We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via HealthCanal: A diet lacking in omega-3 fatty acids, nutrients commonly found in fish, may cause your brain to age faster and lose some of its memory…
From the North Carolina State University press release: Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North…