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Mind Reading a Reality?
... in Kyoto have reproduced an image based on how the brain responds - effectively reading the brain. Yoichi ... recognise what happens in the brain in response to certain images, and the system was then able to accurately reproduce images that the subject had not seen before. The images were ...
Apeing the way we see Faces
... faces, and now researchers have found the part of the brain responsible - and it's basically the same bit of the brain that works in humans! Understanding how a chimpanzee's ... chimps also performed the same task with non-face clipart images. The measure of activity for the two tasks was ...
Can computers read our dreams?
... scanners are able to map out which areas of a subject's brain are active, by monitoring the flow of oxygenated blood ... activity were when their subjects saw particular visual images during wakefulness, versus when similar objects were ... comparison, the team used internet search engines to find images of the kinds of objects that their subjects often ...
Nosey Brains Pivotal to Mammal Success
... lead author of the study. To understand how the mammalian brain evolved, the researchers studied two tiny fossilised ... or CT, whereby a computer generates three-dimensional images of an object using X-rays. This is the same technique ... to visualise the inside of a patient's body. "As the brain inflates and grows, it grows very rapidly, and it ...
Hand preference arises from a competition in the brain
... have come a little bit closer to understanding how the brain chooses which hand to use for any particular action. ... of right-handed people and instructed them to reach for images placed on a table. The participants could use either hand to pick the images up, and these images were in different places on the ...
A Researchers Pick of Neuroscience News
... able to identify a specific subset of cells growing within brain tumours, a kind of cancer stem cell and these cells are ... paper I'd like to talk about describes what happens to the brain when you learn a second language. Now a lot of people ... nerve tracts of the brain. Now the scientists took monthly images of the brains of 27 people. Of those 27 people, 11 ...
Mapping the emotion of words
... form of mind reading, scientists have decoded patterns of brain activity that accurately predict whether a human ... by distinct spatial patterns of activity in the brain which are similar from person to person. Ethofer and ... of activity in their auditory cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for processing sounds. The ...
Glasses-free 3D displays
... at Hewlett-Packard have come up with a way to deliver 3D images on mobiles, televisions and tablet computer screens ... separated by about 6cm. Each eye sees, and feeds to the brain, a slightly different but overlapping view of the ... To recreate this effect using a flat screen, two separate images need to be fed to each eye individually. ...
Obsessive research highlights cause of OCD
Scientists in Cambridge have pinpointed changes in brain activity underlying obsessive compulsive disorder. ... and a control group of 14 unaffected individuals. In a brain scanner the volunteers were shown two pictures side by ... to press one of two buttons to indicate which of the two images was the "correct" answer, which they had to work out ...
Spying on the sense of self
... Previous research has shown that a few areas of the brain - the prefrontal cortex, the posterior cingulated ... But can we draw a distinction between regions of the brain that are specifically involved in processing thoughts ... insula, deep in the forebrain, which is part of the brain linked to feelings and emotions. The researchers used ...
Take a deep breath
... is a cluster of a few thousand nerve cells sitting in the brain's medulla, which acts as the neurological interface ... twice the time to sitting calmly. Measurements of their brain activity also showed a corresponding increase in theta ... coeruleus , to send alerting signals to other parts of the brain. These cells, the researchers speculate, couple mood ...
Learning to forget
... cause you to forget another, new research has shown. The brain archives memories a bit like a library, with a ... a lifetime's worth of learning and experiences, the brain faces a progressively greater challenge pulling the ... , the team asked volunteers to memorise pairs of images, but then to recall just one of the pair, forcing ...
Recording human memories forming
... event or experience, tend to be stored in the part of the brain called the medial temporal lobe. It is already known ... into their brains. The patients were shown a sequence of images of famous actors and places, while the activity of their brain cells were simultaneously recorded using the ...
Gossip makes faces more memorable
... experience. But to what extent hearsay influences how the brain regards the subjects of casual water-cooler ... sees them. The researchers asked volunteers to look at images of neutral faces that were paired four times with ... were then shown the same photographs alongside images of unrelated stimuli, such as a house, in a binocular ...
Skip breakfast and hanker after fatty foods
Hunger pangs cause the brain to lust selectively after more calorie-rich foods, new ... Goldstone showed data from 21 healthy volunteers who were brain scanned as they surveyed and rated images of a range of food offerings seen either while they ...
It's in there somewhere...
... Using functional MRI scanning, the scientists found that brain activity while remembering an event is very similar to ... memories that we may subconsciously forget. Inside a brain scanner, volunteers were shown words and asked to do ... linked to them. By comparing the initial patterns of brain activity with the later patterns, the researchers were ...
Back a winner, or a near miss
... in the Journal of Neuroscience this week, surfaced when brain scientists Henry Chase and Luke Clark scanned the ... virtual fruit machine that paid out 50 pence whenever the images on the two reels matched. When the subjects "won" like ... narrowly missed out on a win - for instance when like images on the reels were misaligned by just one notch, the ...
The Thirst for Knowledge
... rewarding in itself, and uses the same pathways in the brain as our response to very basic rewards such as food or ... who had been trained to choose between two different images on a computer screen using their eyes. In return for ... The scientists then looked at what parts of the brain were responsible for this, and focused on ...
Super Microscope Watches Living Brain Cells
... researchers to observe changes in a single neuron in the brain of a live mouse. The exceptional level of detail even ... able to observe live, healthy neurons in situ. By taking images every few minutes, they were able to see dendritic ... these could help us to get to grips with how the brain grows and develops, as well as changes over time. A ...
Spiders get the green light for jumping
... Most animals judge distances either by comparing the images formed by their two separate eyes, as in humans, ... and converted into electrical signals for relaying to the brain. Curiously, the researchers found that one layer of the ...
How old are you really?
... and BMI (body mass index), to IQ and the health of your brain. Each factor was weighted equally to ensure no bias was ... of undergraduate students at Duke University were shown images of each of the participants and asked to record what ...
Is that face male or female? Look into my eyes, not around the eyes...
... is organised. The visual cortex is the part of the brain that interprets images and inside it cells are grouped according to the part ...