Drinking alcohol in moderation does not completely deplete all of our brain abilities. In fact, it could increase the ability to detect small changes in a visual setting, according to scientists at the University of Illinois (USA). In two experiments, scientists, led by Jennifer Wiley, found that slightly drunk subjects (with 0.8 percent blood alcohol) detected variations in two versions of a nearly identical film in which there was only a small change with the same level of success as the sober ones, but much faster.
Research by the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) suggests that random collisions between neurons during brain development create ordered patterns when there are no signals to guide their fate. This finding could help explain individual differences in brain organization in members of the same species. The study has been published in the journal Neuron.
What do Gloria Stefan's father, former Real Madrid player Javier Artero and the mother of the Harry Potter creator have in common? The answer is a life marked by multiple sclerosis. In Spain about 45 people out of 100,000 suffer from this pathology, more common in women, which has become the most common neurological disease in young adults after epilepsy.
For the first time, researchers have seen the thought "swim" inside the brain of a live fish. The new technology used could be a powerful tool for perception studies, according to the authors in the journal Current Biology.
The sculptor Auguste Rodin said that "a woman who undresses is a withering image, like the sun that pierces the clouds". But exactly what effect does nudity have on our brains? Scientists from the University of Tampere (Finland) have carried out an experiment showing a series of volunteers images of people without clothes, wearing a bathing suit or wearing a dress that covered their entire body.
There is no doubt that observing a person's mouth while speaking helps us to understand it. The brain area where both information - sound and movement - are combined is called the superior temporal sulcus. And that is where the illusory McGurk effect also appears: when someone moves their lips, but the acoustic signals they emit are different, we perceive something unreal. In other words, if what we see does not match what we hear, our mind misrecodes the message.
Drug addiction could be the result of abnormal functioning of neurons in the frontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls decision-making, according to a study by Japanese scientists and Canadian scientists published in the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
