This video shows Anne Elk’s theory: Zen Faulkes reminded us of its existence, as he explained the new theory someone has advanced about The Connectome. BONUS: An neuroscientist’s theory of The Connectome:
Tag: brain
Kids’ brain response to ice cream and a milkshake
How does part of the brain respond when you stuff kids with ice cream over a long period of time and then offer them an ice-cream-filled milkshake? This is the first study to involve a scientist named Burger who investigates that question in the particular way that this study goes about it (Thanks to investigator Gus […]
Taxi driver brains: A further look
Eleanor Maguire has extended the research for which she and her colleagues (David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner,Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University College London) were awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology. The original paper is: “Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers“, It compared the brains of London taxi drivers—all of […]
What Happens When the Brain Encounters Naughtiness?
When a person thinks about naughty things, does one side of the brain get more exercised than the other? Eight scientists studied that question. Their report, Hemispheric Asymmetries During Processing of Immoral Stimuli, appears in the journal Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience. The stated goal is to describe “the neural organisation of moral processing”. Debra Lieberman, a […]
Cranial, cranial, cranial video video video
This music video is a strong contender (in our view, anyway) in the Brain Awareness Video Competition. Apparently intended to help you remember the official names of several brain regions, it will almost certainly help you never forget the power of repeating the word “cranial” when you are eventually going to say or sing the […]
Why brain extraction is not as bad as it sounds
Scientists marvel at how other scientists – the ones who study something other than what they themselves study – give strange meanings to common words. Evan Shellshear, at Fraunhofer Chalmers Centre in Gothenburg, sent me an example, a study called Fast Robust Automated Brain Extraction. Shellshear said: “I stumbled across this article somehow [whilst] looking for […]
What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
The memorial for Jerry Lettvin — a full day of stories, scientific talks, and maybe even some performances — happens this Sunday (September 25), at MIT, in [building/room] 32-123, starting at 9:00 am. The photo here shows Maggie and Jerry, way back when. Maggie will be at the memorial. In case you’ve never seen it, here’s […]
Celebrating the taxi-driver brain researcher
The Wellcome Trust celebrates Eleanor Maguire and her Ig Nobel Prize-winning research about the brains of London taxi drivers: Mapping memories – Eleanor Maguire and brain imaging To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, we are publishing a series of 14 features on people […]
Neurotriumph: Teen Song Popularity Prediction
Is this the greatest triumph of 21st century neuroscience? A new study sings of the persuasive power of fMRI studies, and of the emerging consensus that, one way or another, they are good for business [also see 1st bonus item below, about a related book]. Futurity.org reports the news: Teen brains predict song popularity “We […]
“Brain scans show” [brain show business]
Dorothy Bishop writes, in her blog (HT Uta Frith): I was set off today by a report that “fMRI scans prove music is more emotionally stimulating if you listen with your eyes closed”. What’s wrong with that? Well… It seems every week we have another claim that brain scans have shown something about our cognitive or […]