How the brain distinguishes bugs from birdsThe brain has specialized areas for recognizing categories such as faces and houses, but how does it distinguish items within a category? The authors showed human volunteers pictures of bugs, birds and primates and compared neural response patterns in the ...
The study, published Thursday in Science, challenges our idea of what it means to have a birdbrain, said Edward Wasserman, an experimental psychologist at the University of Iowa who wrote an independent review of the study. "In fact, birds are extremely intelligent and our...
Many students think that learning a new language is very hard. Now think how hard it is to learn English when your brain is only the size of a bird’s brain! The following is what some birds can do.Many different kinds of birds can copy the sounds of lan
Echoic memory is necessary for storing audio information within the brain. Auditory sensory memory is sometimes referred to as the auditory sensory register. Sounds are processed in the primary auditory cortex, located in the temporal lobe. Mismatch negativity allows humans to process two overlapping ...
You can kill two birds with one stone. You have to exercise in order to maintain optimal health, so while you are doing this, incorporate your meditation practice to save you some time. In the hustle and bustle of busy schedules in our society, this is a great practice of self-care tha...
Having the other person conform to our desires so we will love them is manipulation, not love. Focusing on “what’s in it for me” is a death knell for true love. Yet, as mothers, we sometimes forget that in our relating to our adult children. When we can view them with some deta...
While chickens are the least dangerous farm animal you can keep around, they aren’t completely harmless. If you have especially small children, it’s always a good idea to make sure they are supervised when around your birds. This is because both small children and chickens are often unpredi...
“How big d’you reckon the floods shall be, my pet?” I curiously asked, reaching one dainty, delicate, elegantly thin hand out to pat my closest and dearest friend on top of her soft, silky, round head. My four-legged companion let out a rather peaceful meow that instantly seemed to...
In music video making, a treatment is a document that presents and elaborates on the concept of the MV. It further develops from the initial idea into a creative outline, narrowing down the brainstorming into something workable. The treatment usually comes with visual elements and text. ...
Blue is the “king of colors,” as we’ve mentioned in our article “Logo colors: what’s best for your brand?” It evokes feelings of calm and trustworthiness, which is why it’s a favorite with big corporations (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, to name a few). It also appears in ...