Famous mugs do more than prompt us into buying magazines, according to new Université de Montréal research. In the December issue of the Canadian Journal on Aging, a team of scientists explain how the ability to name famous faces or access biographical knowledge about celebrities holds clues that [...]
Archive for the ‘Brain Dynamics’ Category
25 December, 2009 08:36 § in Brain Dynamics
Detección del Alzheimer: ¿Cómo se llamaba? Cómo los apodos de los famosos pueden ayudarnos a recordar.
22 December, 2009 09:14 § in Brain Dynamics
Ahora lo ves, ahora sabes que lo ves.
There is a tiny period of time between the registration of a visual stimulus by the unconscious mind and our conscious recognition of it. In other words, between the time we see an apple and the time we recognize it as an apple. Our minds lag behind our eyes, but by how long? And how [...][...]
14 December, 2009 13:13 § in Brain Dynamics
La actividad cerebral delata a los que rompen sus promesas.
Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The results of the study conducted by Dr. Thomas Baumgartner and Professor Ernst [...]
4 December, 2009 09:48 § in Brain Dynamics
Ilusión auditiva: cómo nuestros cerebros pueden llenar los vacíos para crear un sonido continuo.
It is relatively common for listeners to “hear” sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain’s ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. Now, a new study helps to explain what happens in the brain [...]
12 November, 2009 11:38 § in Brain Dynamics
La ilusión del tiempo: observando el efecto antes que la causa.
A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from France, suggests that the unc[...]
