Researchers at Harvard Medical School isolated one of the brain-size genes by working with mice. When the mice were administered an increase of a gene named beta-catenin, their brains doubled in size, and they began to show more activity in the cerebral cortex [source: Cromie]. The cerebral...
So what was the difference between a Neanderthal and a modern human of the time? And did our brain give us some sort of hidden advantage? First of all, although your average Neanderthal had a larger brain than that of the last human you spoke to, it was probably comparable in siz...
The idea that listening to classical music can increase your brainpower has become so popular that it's been dubbed "the Mozart effect." So how did this myth start? In the 1950s, an ear, nose and throat doctor named Albert Tomatis began the trend, claiming success using Mozart's music ...
Working memory capacity is known to increase during cognitive development8,9,10and individual differences in this possibly affect how events are segmented and interpreted3,11. On average, children seem to be sufficiently able to segment events by the age of five, and their performance becomes more...
HMRC cited three main reasons for the increase in the number of simple assessments. The first was a rise in the number of state pensioners who also have other income in retirement which they need to pay tax on. Frozen tax thresholds until 2028 is another key driver. This means that as in...
2.2 An omnipotent ‘God’ — Increase accessibility In the office or out in the field? Do not worry. Cloud-based dashboard tools could update in real time and are accessible from any browser. Just a link to their dashboards! Then sharing becomes available. In addition, as the human brai...
Humans have extraordinarily large brains, which have tripled in size in the last few million years. Other animals also experienced a significant, though smaller, increase inbrain size. These increases are puzzling, because brain tissue is energetically expensive: that is, a smaller brain is easier...
Why is the concept of carrying capacity hard to apply to modern human populations? Did it apply to primitive humans? Why or why not? Describe how you can quantify the size difference, between the tick and the mite, using the microscope. How can depth of field affect your ability ...
Scientists translate seismograph measurements into an earthquake's magnitude, which describes the quake's size. Quakes with magnitudes less than about 2.5 usually can't be felt. Quakes between 2.5 and 5.4 are minor and typically cause little damage. For every whole number increase on the scale —...
Though predictive analytics has been around for decades, it's a technology whose time has come. More and more organizations are turning to predictive analytics to increase their bottom line and competitive advantage. Why now? Growing volumes and types of data, and more interest in using data to...