El porqué de que todos los animales que pueblan la tierra puedan escuchar sonidos, es un misterio de la naturaleza, pero ha hecho que este sentido sea uno de los más relevantes para la supervivencia de éstos. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share wi[...]
Archive for the ‘Cognitive Neuroscience’ Category
14 July, 2011 08:00 § in Cognitive Neuroscience
Beauty Is in the Medial Orbito-Frontal Cortex of the Beholder
A region at the front of the brain ‘lights up’ when we experience beauty in a piece of art or a musical excerpt, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust. The study, published July 6 in the open access journalPLoS One, suggests that the one characteristic that all works of [...]
4 March, 2011 08:00 § in Cognitive Neuroscience
More Evidence That Alzheimer’s Disease May Be Inherited from Your Mother.
Results from a new study contribute to growing evidence that if one of your parents has Alzheimer’s disease, the chances of inheriting it from your mother are higher than from your father. The study was published in the March 1, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the Ame[...]
2 March, 2011 13:31 § in Neuroimaging Methods, Cognitive Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s Disease May Be Easily Misdiagnosed.
New research shows that Alzheimer’s disease and other dementing illnesses may be easily misdiagnosed in the elderly, according to early results of a study of people in Hawaii who had their brains autopsied after death. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit[...]
25 February, 2011 07:00 § in Cognitive Neuroscience
How to Leave Your Body.
Leave your body and shake hands with yourself, gain an extra limb or change into a robot for a while. Swedish neuroscientist Henrik Ehrsson has demonstrated that the brain’s image of the body is negotiable. Applications stretch from touch-sensitive prostheses to robotics and virtual worlds. Bo[...]
