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When he was 23 years old, Rom Houben, an engineering student and martial arts expert, was in a car accident. He was diagnosed with an irreversible coma, but he continued to hear and see what was happening around him. They say that now he is communicating again.

Do the following test. Ask a friend to make a list of ten words or numbers. Read it once. Then try to remember the items and say them out loud. Most people repeat a maximum of seven items.

For the first time in history, a scan of the brain activity of a suspected murderer has been used as evidence in a trial. Attorneys for Brian Dugan, accused of killing a girl in 1983, used neuroimaging to show that their client suffered from psychopathy.

200 milliseconds elapse from when an idea appears in the brain until it is transformed into words, according to a Spanish research. With this mental speed, a human being is able to speak about three words per second.

According to a study by the Boff School of Management at the University of Chicago (USA) and Tilburg University (Netherlands), political affiliation has a very important influence on the perception of a candidate's skin tone.

Forward and backward eye movement exercises increase creativity, Elizabeth Shobe and colleagues at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey reveal in the December issue of Brain and cognition magazine.

A team of scientists at the University of California at Irvine has detected a genetic variation whose carriers show 20 percent worse results in driving tests than subjects with a different DNA sequence.

A new study reveals that musical perception could have its origin in the calls that animals, and specifically non-human primates, use to communicate.