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How Harvard students perceive rednecks: The neural basis for prejudice
The source of many of the world's woes might be tracked to a specific brain area responsible for identifying people that are not of our ilk.
The science of Superbowl fandom: why your testosterone level is up
Are you a Giants fan? Are you feeling good today? It could be the testosterone boost you got from vicariously participating in the Giants' miraculous late-game win in Sunday's Super Bowl...
Working Memory: They Found Your Brain's Spam Filter
Working Memory: The Brain's Spam Filter Located
Andrew W. McCollough & Edward K. Vogel
University of Oregon
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The Lab Route to Out-of-Body Experiences
by Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Barrow Neurological institute
Phoenix, Arizona
Some camera work, some stroking, and next thing you know you're out of your own body...
Are Whales Smarter Than We Are?
Cetacean brains, such as those of dolphins (left) and humpback whales (right), have even more cortical convolutions and surface area than human brains do.
Stressing the Hippocampus: Why It Matters
A vital part of your brain is named after the animal that its odd, twisting shape resembles: the seahorse, genus Hippocampus . _____________________ J Douglas Bremner Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit Emory University, Atlanta The hippocampus is a brain area involved in memory that animal studies have shown to be sensitive to the effects of stress...
Selective Vision: The Brain's Spin Machine Starts Early
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With the election season hard upon us and the spin machines working overtime, we thought it sensible to rerun a post from last year about a sort of spin machine recently discovered in the brain...
A Tour of NeuroSci - Mind Matters' First Year
Mind Matters - The First Year
We did not, alas, make it to the Prague Museum, which is pictured above. But with the end of both the calendar year and Mind Matters' first year it seems a good time to look a back and see where we have been since launching in January...
Mirror Neurons -- Rock Stars or Backup Singers?
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Greg Hickok Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Irvine
Mirror neurons are the rock stars of cognitive neuroscience...
James Watson's African Ancestry and more - The Week That Was
Things are really starting to heat up over at Sciam's freewheeling new news firehose, 60 Second Science. Here's what you're missing: James Watson might be 16% black; gods of irony shout,"BUUURN!" Voyager 2 leaves solar system, looking forward to 'new projects with Diddy' Atlantis shuttle crew fends off giant arachnid OMG-we-wish-we-were-kidding-dept: Airborne pig brain matter may cause neurological disorder in pork industry workers How Saturn's 'UFO' Moons formed [video] 10,000 Years of Human Civilization Explained by One Study The Fab Four’s hit singles funded development of CT scanner!...
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