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Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain
Posted in Science on 21st Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller
Aiming to discern discrete neural circuits, researchers have tracked electrical activity in the brains of people who alternately imagined scenes or watched videos.
How to increase (or decrease) brain activity and memory
Posted in Science on 18th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller
Is it possible to rapidly increase (or decrease) the amount of information the brain can store?
Brain's taste secrets uncovered
Posted in Medicine on 10th Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller
The brain has specialist neurons for each of the five taste categories, salty, bitter, sour, sweet and umami, US scientists have discovered.
A brain decoder that could read your inner thoughts
Posted in Hardware on 3rd Nov, 2014
by Alex Muller
Scientists have figured out how to read the words of our inner monologue, a finding that could help people who cannot physically speak to communicate with the world.
Scientists convert human skin cells into brain cells
Posted in Medicine on 28th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller
By exposing skin cells to a particular combination of cell programming molecules, scientists managed to convert them into brain cells that behave like native cells.