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Listener's Brain Predicts Speaker's Words

Monday, September 15th, 2008 - 12:02:08 - Ehud Rattner

Scientists at the University of Rochester have shown for the first time that our brains automatically consider many possible words and their meanings...

Time Teaches How to Recognize Visual Objects

Saturday, September 13th, 2008 - 18:02:17 - Anuradha Menon

In work that could aid efforts to develop more brain-like computer vision systems, MIT neuroscientists have tricked the visual brain into confusing...

Memory Trick Shows Brain Organization

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 - 20:54:34 - Anuradha Menon

A simple memory trick has helped show UC Davis researchers how an area of the brain called the perirhinal cortex can contribute to forming memories...

Rat-Brain Robot Aids Memory Study

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 - 14:04:19 - Ehud Rattner

A robot controlled by a blob of rat brain cells could provide insights into diseases such as Alzheimer's, University of Reading scientists say. The...

Mapping Neuronal Fiber Crossings in Brain

Friday, August 1st, 2008 - 16:41:43 - Anuradha Menon

Obtaining information about the anatomical connectivity of the human brain, noninvasively, is a difficult challenge facing neuroscientists. The adult...

Robot With Human-like Hand Control

Monday, July 28th, 2008 - 10:31:52 - Ehud Rattner

A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an...

On Lobotomy and Phantom Limbs
Monday, July 28th, 2008 - Ran Levi
Studied for hundreds of years, the brain is still a mystery in many respects and one part of it is particularly mysterious:...