Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
More clues as to how meditation affects the brain.
Amusics can hear pitch changes, they just don't know they can.
The psychology of comforting.
Are today's youngsters more narcissistic than previous generations?
Sense of touch is enhanced in blind people on some tasks, but not others.
A participant's familiarity with computers can affect their performance on some computerised neuropsychological tests.
People with schizophrenia can feel embarrassment.
We underestimate the rapid consequences of economic growth.
Subitizing is our ability to recognise small quantities at a glance, without counting. We can do this with our sense of touch too.
A major drawback to prosthetic limbs is the lack of sensory feedback they provide. "Targeted reinnervation" could provide the answer. This involves taking the nerves that once innervated the severed limb and re-routing them to nearby skin or muscle where they form new connections. "This creates a sensory expression of the missing limb in the amputee's reinnervated skin. When these individuals are touched on this reinnervated skin they feel as though they are being touched on their missing limb."
- Deep Brain Stimulation For Phantom Limb Pain
A clinical study of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of phantom limb pain (Bittar et al., 2005) reviews not only the treatments and mechanisms of phantom limb pain, but the historical aspects as well: The 16th century French military surgeon Ambroise...
- Men In A War
If they've lost a limb Still feel that limb As they did before He lay on a cot He was drenched in a sweat He was mute and staring But feeling the thing He had not --Suzanne Vega, Men in a War from Days of Open Hand (1990) Learn more about Crystal...
- Robot Skin
Continuing with the robot theme, the lowbrow science site LiveScience.com (infamous for sensationalistic headlines) carried a very funny article by Bill Christensen of Technovelgy.com, Robots Get Soft, Human-Like Skin If you hate being touched by your...
- Robotic Exoskeletons - Handy At Work And Home
Great work by Tsukuba University: "An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times...
- Taste
From an NIH press release earlier today:NIDCD-funded Researchers Find Missing "Piece of the Pie" in Understanding Taste Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the...
Neuroscience
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:More clues as to how meditation affects the brain.
Amusics can hear pitch changes, they just don't know they can.
The psychology of comforting.
Are today's youngsters more narcissistic than previous generations?
Sense of touch is enhanced in blind people on some tasks, but not others.
A participant's familiarity with computers can affect their performance on some computerised neuropsychological tests.
People with schizophrenia can feel embarrassment.
We underestimate the rapid consequences of economic growth.
Subitizing is our ability to recognise small quantities at a glance, without counting. We can do this with our sense of touch too.
A major drawback to prosthetic limbs is the lack of sensory feedback they provide. "Targeted reinnervation" could provide the answer. This involves taking the nerves that once innervated the severed limb and re-routing them to nearby skin or muscle where they form new connections. "This creates a sensory expression of the missing limb in the amputee's reinnervated skin. When these individuals are touched on this reinnervated skin they feel as though they are being touched on their missing limb."
- Deep Brain Stimulation For Phantom Limb Pain
A clinical study of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of phantom limb pain (Bittar et al., 2005) reviews not only the treatments and mechanisms of phantom limb pain, but the historical aspects as well: The 16th century French military surgeon Ambroise...
- Men In A War
If they've lost a limb Still feel that limb As they did before He lay on a cot He was drenched in a sweat He was mute and staring But feeling the thing He had not --Suzanne Vega, Men in a War from Days of Open Hand (1990) Learn more about Crystal...
- Robot Skin
Continuing with the robot theme, the lowbrow science site LiveScience.com (infamous for sensationalistic headlines) carried a very funny article by Bill Christensen of Technovelgy.com, Robots Get Soft, Human-Like Skin If you hate being touched by your...
- Robotic Exoskeletons - Handy At Work And Home
Great work by Tsukuba University: "An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times...
- Taste
From an NIH press release earlier today:NIDCD-funded Researchers Find Missing "Piece of the Pie" in Understanding Taste Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the...