Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (United States) and Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland) have found the first physiological evidence that the brain responds to inequality like a true "Robin Hood". The experiments, published today in the journal Nature, show that reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when a "poor" person receives a financial reward than when a "rich" person does.
Where does intelligence reside? What makes us more or less intelligent than the rest? According to an American study in which the Spanish Roberto Colom, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, has also participated, general intelligence is based on effective communication between specific regions of both brain hemispheres.
A team of scientists from the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon (USA) has identified the region of the brain that is responsible for processing silences in spoken language. As Michael Wehr and his colleagues explain in Neuron magazine, there are separate channels for processing the presence and absence of sound. The two channels converge in an area of the brain called the auditory cortex, located in the temporal lobe.
The Biomedical Neuroengineering Group of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante) has developed a brain-computer interface that allows a user to browse the Internet and handle computer applications using only thought. The results will be presented next April at one of the most important conferences in the world on Artificial Intelligence.
The Holy Grail of neurosciences could be found in a circuit of 30 neurons located in the stomach of a crustacean. The biologist Eve Marder explains to us in an interesting interview how it is possible that this mini-brain provides invaluable information about the functioning of our brains.
A team of Australian and German neuroscientists has found a way to measure the level of attention of a tiny fruit fly. Their work, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, will help to better understand the problems of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism in humans.
Running and exercising regularly not only helps keep obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol at bay. It also develops the brain, stimulating the appearance of new neurons in areas related to memory and learning, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge.
Researchers at New York University in the United States have developed a non-invasive method without drugs that semi-permanently blocks the reappearance of fear memories in humans.
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.
