neuroscience

Researchers Map How the Brain Processes Faces From Sight to Recognition

Posted in Science on 27th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller

How does the brain recognise familiar faces with efficiency and ease despite extensive variation in how they appear?

Brain's party noise filter revealed by recordings

Posted in Science on 22nd Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller

Direct recordings have revealed what is happening in our brains as we make sense of speech in a noisy room.

MRI scans reveal Runners' Brains May Have More Connectivity, UA Research Shows

Posted in Medicine on 19th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller

MRI scans reveal that running may affect the structure and function of the brain in ways similar to playing a musical instrument.

Lack of sleep may disrupt development of a child's brain

Posted in Science on 4th Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller

New brain scans reveal sleep deprivation damages children's brains more than previously thought.

Tracking large neural networks in the brain by making neurons glow

Posted in Science on 2nd Dec, 2016
by Alex Muller

A new kind of bioluminescent sensor causes individual brain cells to glow in the dark, giving scientists a new tool to track whats happening in the brain.