All Articles Tagged As: frontal cortex
New research provides fascinating insight into brain changes that might underlie alterations in spiritual and religious attitudes. The study, published by Cell Press in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, explores the neural basis of spirituality by studying patients before and after surgery to remove a brain tumor.
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New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that information from single brain cells cannot be interpreted differently within a short time period, a finding that is important for understanding both normal cognition and psychiatric disorders.
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 | Brown University's David Badre, an assistant professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, mapped parts of the brain that control abstract or concrete decision making by studying stroke patients. Their findings will be published March 1 in the journal Nature Neuroscience. ...> Full Article |
Practice makes perfect, but a question that still remains a mystery is why it is so difficult to transfer learning from a trained to an untrained task? Why are we no better at remembering faces when we have been training our memory for words? Scientists say that the answer lies in the brain areas activated by each task.
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Scientists searching for the circuitry that activates your ability to execute a decision
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