“Until now it was assumed that the brain segregates visual information in this way to optimize processing of actions associated with tools. But how the human brain controls our hands to correctly grasp 3D objects such as tools was not well understood. “We wanted to test whether the human b...
Neuroscientist Sergiu P. Pasca has made it his life's work to understand how the human brain builds itself -- and what makes it susceptible to disease. In a mind-blowing talk laden with breakthrough science, he shows how his team figured out how...
A team of researchers working at the Weizmann Institute of Science has found that organoids can be used to better understand how the human brain wrinkles as it develops. In their paper published in the journalNature Physics, the team describes how they used a modified form of organoid developme...
researchers have not been able to fully crack the brain's "neural code." The neural code details how the brain's roughly 100 billion neurons turn raw sensory inputs into information we can use to see, hear and feel things in our environment. ...
The emergence of hand-held tools marked the beginning ofa major separationbetween humans and our closest primate relatives. Our findings could help us understand the brain regions that specifically evolved in thehuman brain. In the future, we could use the activity of visual hand areas to improve...
Bilingual Brain Only the human brain has the unique ability to speak and understand multiple languages. The brain functioning for a bilingual person is relatively similar to that of a monolingual person. Bilinguals merely activate the same regions of the brain when they hear or produce a sound,...
As the authors note, scientists trying to understand how the human brain works have in recent years been looking at magic tricks as a possible tool. How is the mind fooled, for example, and what impact does witnessing amagic trickhave on the person watching it? Studying the ways that magic...
How The Brain is Structured It’s crucial, to begin with, the basic structure of the brain to start to understand how the human mind creates memories and processes thoughts. For the most part, animals all have relativelysimilar brain form. In this essential form, the innermost parts of the...
It took 10 years, around 500 scientists and some €600 million, and now the Human Brain Project — one of the biggest research endeavours ever funded by the European Union — is coming to an end. Its audacious goal was to understand the human brain by modelling it in a computer. Access...
The effect of neuropeptides on human trust and altruism: a neuroeconomic perspective Neuroeconomics merges methods from neuroscience and economics to better understand how the human brain generates decisions in economic and social contexts. The emerging neuroeconomic approach (Camerer et al. 2005; Fehr ...