Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Aristotle defined our five senses over two and a half th... But in fact we have many more. In this five part series,... delves into the Extra Senses that we take for granted. H... they work and meets some remarkable people who experienc... a unique wa

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

Neanderthals are a closely related species of human that... from around 250,000 years ago. They coexisted and intera... our species until they went extinct about 28,000 years a...
The research team explored the idea that the ancestor of ...
The humans

JIM HORNE
Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director ...

In Western cultures, girls consistently prefer pink, boy... Which academic camp lays claim to this difference? Past ... a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of findin... females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink... colours. Bu

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

Contextualizing Concepts
Liane Gabora and Diederik Aerts
... develop a formal description of the contextual manner in which concepts are evoked, used, and combined to generate meaning.

In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve pr...
Animals rarely solve problems spontaneously, yet certain ...
The University of Auckland research shows that such prob ...
“Crows and parrots have long been known to solve the s ...
... ings of

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

Ericsson, K. A., & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long-term working... Psychological Review, 102, 211-245.
Author of the summary: David Zach Hambrick, 1998, gt8781 ...
The sine qua non of skilled cognitive performance is the ...
Working memory (WM) refers to the si

Research Reviews
Making connections
Life scientists and physical scientists face many of the ...
This was an important clue in deciding the shape of the ...
The project commissioned a series of Research Reviews so ...

Cognitive Systems: Information Processing Meets Brain Sc...
Authors: Richard G M Morris, Lionel Tarassenko and Micha ...
Publisher: Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd
ISBN: 0120885662

The total information processing activity of the brain i... because the current knowledge in this area is fragmentar... possible to get a general picture of the electronic puls... activity within a couple of orders of magnitude. The act... is equivale

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2009) — A diet high in fat and ... carbohydrates, known as the "ketogenic" diet, quickens r... paralyzed rats after spinal cord injury, according to ne...

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that disting ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women u... neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to... situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orb... suggested activation of the "fight or flight" response. ... activated t

Estimates for the human brain range between 10 billion a... imprecision in these estimates is due almost entirely to... the number of granule cells in the cerebellum, a problem... traced back to a study by Braitenberg & Atwood (1958). M...
[A revisio

The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th...
They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
Surprisingl

Number of Neurons in a Human Brain
The Physics Factbook%u2122
Edited by Glenn Elert -- Written by his students
An educational, Fair Use website
... brain has more than 100 billion neurons" > 100 billion

In 2007 in my lab at Berkeley, Tamar Kushnir and I disco... preschoolers can use probabilities to learn how things w... lets them imagine new possibilities. We put a yellow blo...
Then we gave the children the blocks and asked them to l ...
We also did

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim

Ian Sample talks to the scientists teasing out why we st... pleasurable experiences - and why, when we have it all, ... for more excitement

In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w

Welcome
... Serendip is
a gathering place for people w ...
instructions are always ambigu ...
... and in how one makes sense of life.

A bionic eye implant has been shown to give blind men an...
The technology is quite incredible. A three millimetre s ...
However, as impressive as the technology is, the impact ...
The results have been tagged as astonishing by eye surge ...
... suffere

On May 21st and 22nd 2007, the Krasnow Institute for Adv... George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, hosted a Symposi...
Ten eminent neuroscientists signed the letter in Science ...
The "Decade of the Brain" [2], has quite naturally led t ...
The "Decade

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.