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First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Adaptation Shifts Preferred Orientation of Tuning Curve in the Mouse Visual Cortex

In frontalized mammals it has been demonstrated that adaptation produces shift of the peak of the orientation tuning curve of neuron following frequent or lengthier presentation of a non-preferred stimulus. Depending on the duration of adaptation the ... [Published Elites TV - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Adaptation, Visual Cortex, Neuron, Attribution

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Headset Zaps Video Gamers' Brains For Better Reflexes

Foc.us is a company that makes headsets for gamers. Those headsets, starting to ship in July, send electricity through your brain. This is their pitch:Overclock your brain using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to increase the plasticity ... [Published Popular Science - May 22 2013]

Entities: Direct Current, Giovanni Aldini, Video Games, Gaming, Visual Cortex

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

University of Tübingen

Laughter? It’s all in the mind

Is someone laughing with you or at you? Your brain can tell the difference, researchers have discovered.Dr Kai Alter, of Newcastle University, was part of a team which scanned volunteers’ brain activity as they listened to different types of laughter ... [Published Newcastle University - May 22 2013]

Entities: PLoS ONE, Visual Cortex, University of Tübingen, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Salient Sounds Activate Human Visual Cortex Automatically

3Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0608, and4Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962Author contributions: J.J.M., V.S.S., and S.A.H. designed research; V.S.S. ... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 22 2013]

Entities: Visual Cortex, Occipital lobe, contralateral

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

New York University

Your Brain Is Not a Video Camera

Image via DerrickT/FlickrAnnounced by a push of air and a screeching sound reverberating through the tunnel, the 6 train arrives and passes. Through headphones you are listening to "Day In The Life" by The Beatles. The 6 accelerates to your left, fwoosh, ... [Published Motherboard Magazine - May 21 2013]

Entities: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Neuroscience, New York University, Visual Cortex

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Consciousness: The what, why and how

THERE are a lot of hard problems in the world, but only one of them gets to call itself "the hard problem". And that is the problem of consciousness – how a kilogram or so of nerve cells conjures up the seamless kaleidoscope of sensations, thoughts, memories ... [Published New Scientist - May 20 2013]

Entities: Stuart Sutherland, Neuroscience, Christof Koch, Michael Brooks, Visual Cortex

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Emergence 1.1

Emergence is an experiment in generative line art that takes input from: the iPad video camera, your music library album covers and your Twitter feed to provide an ever-changing procession of sound-reactive imagery. The overall effect is deeply psychedelic.NB: ... [Published Addict3d.org - May 19 2013]

Entities: Twitter, Visual Cortex, Caveat Emptor

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain

Scientists have examined the effects of language on categorical color perception — the idea that color perception is affected by how it is described in language — with behavioral research. Meanwhile, other scholars have looked into this phenomenon using ... [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013]

Entities: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Field of Vision, Visual Cortex, Amygdala

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

How the Brain Perceives a 100 Mile Per Hour Fastball

It takes so long for a signal to travel between our eyes and our brain, the visual cortex has to do some tricky processing to predict where that object will be a split-second later.It takes a very special baseball pitcher to throw a 100 mile per hour ... [Published Tested - May 11 2013]

Entities: Visual Cortex, Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 2 reports

SAPVoice: Eleven Entrepreneurs Make People the Number One Priority of Technology Innovation

As technology become more complex, a group of brilliant entrepreneurs is using it to tackle some of the most fundamental human challenges of all time—clean food and water, adequate and affordable health care, accessible education, and the chance to live ... [Published Forbes.com - May 09 2013]

Entities: Invention, Cellphone, Entrepreneur, Solar Cooker, Visual Cortex

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 3 reports

Swing, Batter: Understanding Speed

Image Credit: Photos.comMichael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe OnlineResearchers from the University of California in Berkeley have finally pinpointed the area of the brain responsible for not only seeing fast-moving objects, but responding to ... [Published Red Orbit - May 09 2013]

Entities: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Visual Cortex, University of California Berkeley

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 2 reports

Spot the ball: Radical breakthrough study pinpoints exactly how our brains track fast-moving objects

Spot the ball: Groundbreaking study pinpoints exactly how our brains track fast-moving objects Our brains 'push' moving images forward because our eyes can't process the images straight awayThe discovery is a significant development into understandin ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 08 2013]

Entities: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Visual Cortex, University of California Berkeley

Quotes

"A positive laugh can be contagious as we're laughing with each other and can help form a group however, schadenfreude when you laugh at the misfortune of others makes someone feel lower in the hierarchy so laughter delineates the dynamics in a group."

Laughter? It’s all in the mind [Published Newcastle University - May 22 2013]

And no: according to the foc.us website, the headset isn't FDA-approved: "The focus gamer headset offers no medical benefits, is not a medical device, and is not regulated by the FDA."

Headset Zaps Video Gamers' Brains For Better Reflexes [Published Popular Science - May 22 2013]

"Our perception corresponds to a model of the world, not the world as it is," said Pascal Wallisch , a neuroscientist at New York University. "This model is constructed by the brain. Put differently, the eye is not a video camera and the brain does not just passively record its input.”"

Your Brain Is Not a Video Camera [Published Motherboard Magazine - May 21 2013]

...that the immune system is likely to be a modifier of HD disease, inflammatory proteins do not seem to be likely candidates to be biomarkers for HD. "Many proteomic studies designed to provide potential biomarkers of disease have generated significant findings, however, often these biomarkers fail to replicate during the validation process" says Björkqvist

Leading researchers report on the elusive search for biomarkers in Huntington's disease [Published EurekAlert! - May 20 2013]

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Adaptation Shifts Preferred Orientation of Tuni... [Published Elites TV - 4 hours ago]
Brain research and cursive writing [Published Press Democrat - May 23 2013]
Laughter? It’s all in the mind [Published Newcastle University - May 22 2013]
Headset Zaps Video Gamers' Brains For Better Re... [Published Popular Science - May 22 2013]
Salient Sounds Activate Human Visual Cortex Aut... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 22 2013]
Brain-Stimulating Headset Will Zap Video Gamers... [Published Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, ... - May 22 2013]
Your Brain Is Not a Video Camera [Published Motherboard Magazine - May 21 2013]
Leading researchers report on the elusive searc... [Published EurekAlert! - May 20 2013]
Consciousness: The what, why and how [Published New Scientist - May 20 2013]
Emergence 1.1 [Published Addict3d.org - May 19 2013]
Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013]
The illusions of advertising [Published Salon - May 16 2013]
The eye and sight [Published Helium - May 16 2013]
Today's News: Newcastle University conducts stu... [Published The Journal - May 15 2013]
Can a Supercomputer Simulate the Entirety of th... [Published Tested - May 14 2013]
MR Shows How Brain Changes Focus to Track Objects [Published Biotech Daily - May 13 2013]
The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – extract [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 12 2013]
How the Brain Perceives a 100 Mile Per Hour Fas... [Published Tested - May 11 2013]
V5: batsman's brainy weapon [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 10 2013]
The 2013 HHMI Investigators [Published Howard Hughes Medical Institute - May 09 2013]
SAPVoice: Eleven Entrepreneurs Make People the ... [Published Forbes.com - May 09 2013]
Can Artificial Retinas Restore Natural Sight? [Published Technology Review - May 09 2013]
Swing, Batter: Understanding Speed [Published Red Orbit - May 09 2013]
Eleven Entrepreneurs Make People the Number One... [Published Sapinfo Magazine - May 08 2013]
Representations of Facial Identity Information ... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 08 2013]
Corticocortical Feedback Contributes to Surroun... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 08 2013]
A Myosin Va Mutant Mouse with Disruptions in Gl... [Published Journal of Neuroscience - May 08 2013]
How Your Brain Tracks Moving Objects [Published LiveScience.com - May 08 2013]
Spot the ball: Radical breakthrough study pinpo... [Published Mail Online UK - May 08 2013]
Spot the ball: Groundbreaking study pinpoints e... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 08 2013]

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Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain [Published Brain Blogger - May 17 2013] Scientists have examined the effects of language on categorical color perception — the idea that color perception is affected by how it is described in language — with behavioral research. Meanwhile, other scholars have looked into this phenomenon using ...
New research on rhythm and source of brain’s sl... [Published EarthSky - Apr 19 2013] The brain’s “slow waves” are rhythmic signal pulses that sweep through the brain during deep sleep, and are assumed to play a role in processes such as consolidation of memory. A new study – based on optical probing of intact brains of live mice under ...
Obama: ‘Braaaaaains.’ Partha Mitra: ‘Whoa there... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 03 2013] Partha Mitra is the Crick-Clay professor of biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. A theoretical physicist by training, he is working on mapping mouse brain circuits. We spoke on the phone Tuesday evening about ...
Brain Scans Can Now Tell Who You’re Thinking About [Published Singularity Hub - Mar 23 2013] [Source: Listal] Beware stalkers, these neuroscientists can tell who you’re thinking of. Or, at least, the kind of personality he or she might have. As a social species humans are highly attuned to the behavior of others around them. It’s a survival ...
Reading Micheal Gazzaniga: Part 1 [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - Mar 18 2013] Let's look at this report :Neanderthals' keen vision may explain why they couldn't cope with environmental change and died out, despite having the same sized brains as modern humans, new research suggests. The findings, published today (March 12) in ...