neuroscience
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
neuroscience | scientific societiesThe IBNS, the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, was founded in 1992. > The goal of the IBNS is to " encourage research and education in the field of behavioral neuroscience". Its current President is Robert T. Gerlai.
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Mark H. Johnson (professor)
brain development | neuroscience Mark Johnson is a British cognitive neuroscientist who since 1997 is head of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College, London.
In 1996, Johnson co-authored (with Jeffrey Elman, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Elizabeth Bates, Domenico Parisi, and Kim Plunkett), the book Rethinking Innateness . This influential book has received more than 1,000 citationshttp://info.scopus.com/etc/citationtracker/, and has been nominated for the “One hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th Century” (Minnesota Millennium Project)http://www.cogsci.umn.edu/OLD/calendar/past_events/millennium/lista.html.
Major Step Forward In Understanding How Memory Works
alzheimer's disease | biology | brain | memory | neuroscience | scienceOur ability to remember the objects, places and people within our environment is essential for everyday life, although the importance of this is only fully appreciated when recognition memory beings to fail, as in Alzheimer’s disease.
Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
cognitive science | neuroscience | videoIn an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analyzing common sentences and words, he shows us
Groups of neurons in the brain rewire by changing images
brain | neural | neurobiology | neurons | neuroscience | scienceNeuroscientists studying the mind’s ability to process images have completed the first empirical study to demonstrate, using animal models, how populations of nerve cells in visual cortex adapt to changing images.
Fascinating split brain behavioral experiments
biology | brain | neurobiology | neuroscience | science | videoTo reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway.
What gives us fingertip dexterity?
biology | nervous system | neurobiology | neuroscience | scienceIn a novel experiment, a USC biomedical engineer examines the intricate circuitry between hand manipulation skills and specialized neural circuits in the brain Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone.
Creative and noncreative problem solvers exhibit different patterns of brain activity
brain | neurobiology | neuroscience | scienceWhy do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are people who think creatively somehow different from those who tend to think in a more methodical fashion? These questions are part of a long-standing debate, with some researchers arguing that what we call “creative thought” and “noncreative thought” are not basically different.
New MIT tool probes brain circuits
biotechnology | brain | memory | neural | neurobiology | neurons | neuroscience | technologyResearchers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of blocking and unblocking a single neural circuit in a living animal.
Scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury
bioengineering | biotechnology | nerves | nervous system | neurobiology | neuroscience | regeneration | regenerative medicine | scienceSpinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord.
