Human Quirks: Mind & Brain
May 14, 2024
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May 13, 2024 Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well as human ...
May 9, 2024 Researchers have created the largest synaptic-resolution, 3D reconstruction of a piece of human brain to date, showing in vivid detail each cell and its web of neural connections in a piece of human temporal cortex about half the size of a rice ...
May 8, 2024 Researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging 'digital afterlife industry' causing social and psychological ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they knew how to perform well. With a simple ...
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Apr. 23, 2024 Post-mitotic neurons in the brain that re-enter the cell cycle quickly succumb to senescence, and this re-entry is more common in Alzheimer's ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding number sense in animals by confirming the existence of discrete number sense in rats, offering a crucial animal model for investigating the ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as ...
Apr. 1, 2024 An international study using artificial intelligence has shown that our personalities alter the expression of our genes. The findings shed new light ...
Apr. 1, 2024 Engineers have created a brain-computer interface that doesn't require calibration for each user, paving the way for widespread clinical ...
Mar. 27, 2024 People who can't visualize an image in their mind's eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognize ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a rather low genetic predisposition for beat synchronization, according to a new ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A new study has challenged previously held views that brain preservation in the archaeological record is extremely rare. The team compiled a new ...
Mar. 19, 2024 In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic -- or brain-inspired -- computing, engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, for those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), which causes facial features to appear distorted, ...
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May 1, 2024 The body clock has a significant impact on the performance of NBA players. Data shows vastly better win ratio for home teams from the Western Time Zone Area (PDT) when playing an EDT team, compared ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...
Apr. 2, 2024 A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Motor neurons are the cells the brain uses to command muscles to act. Scientists typically thought of them as simple connections, much like the cables that link computers with their accessories. Now, ...
Mar. 19, 2024 In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Researchers have developed a new training tool to help artificial intelligence (AI) programs better account for the fact that humans don't always tell the truth when providing personal ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Advanced killer robots are more likely to blamed for civilian deaths than military machines, new research has revealed. The study shows that high-tech bots will be held more responsible for ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Neuroscientists have devised a way to alter our social perception and monitor specific types of hallucinations, both in healthy individuals and patients with Parkinson's disease. The test, which ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Researchers have announced an intriguing discovery -- consumers generally prefer AI-generated images of food over real food images, especially when they are unaware of their true ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Sprinting 'like a jet plane taking off' will help produce Premier League star strikers of tomorrow, new research has revealed. A new study of Tottenham Hotspur's academy has shown that ...
Mar. 1, 2024 In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative ...
Feb. 26, 2024 The average researcher thinks they are better than their colleagues at following good research practice. They also think that their own research field is better than other research fields at ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Complex neuroimaging data can be explored through translation into an audiovisual format -- a video with accompanying musical soundtrack -- to help interpret what happens in the brain when performing ...
Feb. 16, 2024 The efficiency of oxygen supply to tissues is a factor in the severity of important diseases such as Covid-19 and heart conditions. Scientists already know that the relationship between the length of ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Researchers report that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin -- and, by extension, our large, complex brains. The team found that a retrovirus-derived genetic element or ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Babies playfully tease others as young as eight months of age. Since language is not required for this behavior, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals. Now cognitive ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Researchers introduced the Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a user's earlobe temperature. Potential applications include tracking signs of ovulation, stress, ...
Feb. 7, 2024 A teacher's gender and comfort with technology factor into whether artificial intelligence is adopted in the classroom, as shown in a new ...
Feb. 1, 2024 It's an achievement with important implications for scientists studying the brain and working on treatments for a broad range of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Poultry scientists are unraveling the complexities of bird brains and finding less expensive ways to do it. The scientists mapped the intricate neurological pathways that control vision in chickens ...
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- Smart Earrings Can Monitor a Person's Temperature
- How Teachers Make Ethical Judgments When Using AI in the Classroom
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- People Watched Other People Shake Boxes for Science: Here's Why
- AI System Self-Organizes to Develop Features of Brains of Complex Organisms
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- A Small Molecule Blocks Aversive Memory Formation, Providing a Potential Treatment Target for Depression
- Realistic Talking Faces Created from Only an Audio Clip and a Person's Photo
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- When We Feel Things That Are Not There
- When We See What Others Do, Our Brain Sees Not What We See, but What We Expect
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- Rats Have an Imagination, New Research Suggests
- How 'blue' And 'green' Appeared in a Language That Didn't Have Words for Them
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- Neanderthal Gene Variants Associated With Greater Pain Sensitivity
- Extreme Sports: How Body and Mind Interact
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- A Fitness Tracker for Brain Health: How a Headband Can Identify Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease in Your Sleep
- How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back
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- That's Funny -- But AI Models Don't Get the Joke
- GPT-3 Can Reason About as Well as a College Student, Psychologists Report
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- Scientists Discover Spiral-Shaped Signals That Organize Brain Activity
- Illusions Are in the Eye, Not the Mind
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- Electrodes Grown in the Brain -- Paving the Way for Future Therapies for Neurological Disorders
- Wireless, Soft E-Skin for Interactive Touch Communication in the Virtual World
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- Mature 'lab Grown' Neurons Hold Promise for Neurodegenerative Disease
- Artificial Nerve Cells -- Almost Like Biological
- Predisposition to Accidental Awareness Under Anesthesia Identified by Neuroscientists
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- Newly Discovered Anatomy Shields and Monitors Brain
- A Soft, Stimulating Scaffold Supports Brain Cell Development Ex Vivo