Posts Tagged ‘processing’
Cognition, not age, key to decision-making
DUKE (US)—Senior citizens are just as able as younger adults to make sound decisions according to a new study, which finds that cognitive ability, not age, is what matters. Continue…
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Health & Medicine - Nov 24, 2009 16:04 - 9 Comments
Brain listens, learns while we sleep
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Even in deep sleep, sounds make their way into our minds, researchers have found, and enhance associated memories. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 2, 2009 18:10 - 0 Comments
Color plays musical chairs in the brain
U. CHICAGO (US)—What happens in the brain when a color loses the object to which it is linked—for instance, a pink flamingo or blue lake? For the first time, researchers have shown that instead of disappearing along with the lost object, the color latches onto a region of some other object in view, a finding that reveals a new basic property of sight. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 15, 2009 19:15 - 2 Comments
‘Jumping genes’ use bacteria to go viral
Tn7, which is regularly found in bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics, was originally isolated from E. Coli bacteria, pictured here. (Credit: Jake Jacobs)
Health & Medicine - Aug 19, 2009 12:22 - 0 Comments
Brain ‘sees’ even when eyes can’t
Blue shows regions of the brain that were more activated when both sighted and blind participants thought about nonliving things rather than animals. (Courtesy: University of Rochester)
Science & Technology - Jul 22, 2009 12:43 - 2 Comments
Scans show brain’s 2D region processes 3D
Bas Rokers (pictured), Alex Huk, and Larry Cormack discovered the center for 3D motion processing in the human brain. An enhanced image of Rokers’ brain from an fMRI scan shows the region active when perceiving 3D motion, seen as the bright blue area in the lower left of the photo. (Credit: Marsha Miller/UT Austin)
Science & Technology, Society & Culture - Jul 20, 2009 14:28 - 0 Comments
To multitask, first brain must practice, practice
“Even after extensive practice, our brain does not really do two tasks at once,” says study coauthor Paul Dux. “It is still processing one task at a time, but it does it so fast it gives us the illusion we are doing two tasks simultaneously.”
Science & Technology - Jul 1, 2009 12:53 - 2 Comments
Processor signals next leap in quantum computing
“We’re still far away from building a practical quantum computer,” says Yale physicist Robert Schoelkopf, “but this is a major step forward.”
Health & Medicine - Jun 26, 2009 17:11 - 0 Comments
Bigger waistlines thanks to brain’s shortcut
“The eating environment has morphed into an atypical scenario where our usually helpful mental mechanisms betray us,” says Andrew Geier, lead author and a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania.
