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Exploring the Mind's Twilight Zone

Friday, October 9th, 2009 - 10:05:48 - Anuradha Menon

Earlier this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It described two Italian people who never truly slept. They might lie...

Matter Over Mind

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 09:05:28 - Anuradha Menon

A new study suggests activities combining movement and force tax our brains to capacity, countering a long-held belief that difficulty with dexterous...

Learn How We Think About Others from Blind

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 - 09:01:12 - Anuradha Menon

Human beings constantly make inferences about other people's state of mind, usually without even realizing they are doing it. Cognitive scientists...

Scientists Read Minds with Infrared Scan

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - 10:24:56 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers have developed a technique that uses infrared light brain imaging to decode preference – with the goal of ultimately opening the world of...

Acceptance of Nature-Altering Nanotechnology

Friday, December 12th, 2008 - 10:11:56 - Anuradha Menon

Two new National Science Foundation (NSF)- sponsored research studies say public acceptance of the relatively new, nature-altering science of...

Monkeys Move Paralyzed Muscles Using Mind

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 - 16:01:45 - Ehud Rattner

A monkey's paralyzed wrist can be moved and controlled by electrical signals artificially routed from its brain, according to scientists who say that...

Using Gestures Grammatically Correct

Monday, July 7th, 2008 - 18:01:15 - Ehud Rattner

The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in...

Mind Reading Baseball Cap

Sunday, May 18th, 2008 - 11:44:59 - Iddo Genuth

It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain...

OCZ Showcase New Brain-Computer-Interface

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 - 23:28:33 - Iddo Genuth

OCZ's "Neural Impulse Actuator" (NIA) will offer a similar feature set as another device developed Emotiv. OCZ has not mentioned details...

Mind Controlled Bionic Limbs
Monday, December 17th, 2007 - Gadi Howard
In the George Lucas classic Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker's arm is severed and amputated during a lightsaber fight and...