Neuroscience
Other interesting papers that didn't make the final cut this fortnight:
Adults with autistic spectrum disorder have reduced grey matter in the area of the brain thought to contain mirror neurons - brain cells that are active both when someone performs an action, and when they see that action performed by someone else. Open access.
A neuropsychological test for finding out whether someone is faking a memory problem (after head injury) to support a fraudulent compensation claim.
Babies' brains respond differently when they watch the same action performed on TV compared with when they see it performed live.
Two contrasting forms of fighting in judo (free fight versus kata) have a different effect on plasma cortisol, testosterone, and interleukin levels in male participants.
Reading the word 'cinnamon' activates regions of the brain involved in our sense of smell.
When healthy people distinguished between real and imagined information, it activated brain regions thought to be affected by schizophrenia.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: 'Spot the book' and 'Spot the country' - new tests for estimating people's IQ prior to brain-related illness or injury. The brains of men and women differ in how...
- One-year-old Babies Predict Other People’s Intentions
Babies as young as 12 months already have a rudimentary understanding of other people’s intentions. That’s according to Terje Falck-Ytter and colleagues who observed babies’ eye movements as they watched a video presentation of a person picking...
- Mirror Neuron Death March
Above image: Jim Peters almost wins the marathon Vancouver, 7 August 1954, with mirror neurons by Rizzolatti & Craighero (2004). Greg Hickok at Talking Brains has a series of posts dismantling the mirror neuron theory of action understanding. Actually,...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Mirror Neurons
Brain regions with mirror properties: A meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies Neuroscience Biobehavioral Rev. 2011 Jul 18. [Epub ahead of print] Molenberghs P, Cunnington R, Mattingley JB. Abstract Mirror neurons in macaque area F5 fire when an animal...
- Neuroscience & Real Life
Interesting application of neuroscience to real life over at the Creating Passionate Users blog. Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain. Kathy Sierra posted (almost a year ago; I'm slow sometimes) three reasons why it's good to avoid...
Neuroscience
Extras
Other interesting papers that didn't make the final cut this fortnight:Adults with autistic spectrum disorder have reduced grey matter in the area of the brain thought to contain mirror neurons - brain cells that are active both when someone performs an action, and when they see that action performed by someone else. Open access.
A neuropsychological test for finding out whether someone is faking a memory problem (after head injury) to support a fraudulent compensation claim.
Babies' brains respond differently when they watch the same action performed on TV compared with when they see it performed live.
Two contrasting forms of fighting in judo (free fight versus kata) have a different effect on plasma cortisol, testosterone, and interleukin levels in male participants.
Reading the word 'cinnamon' activates regions of the brain involved in our sense of smell.
When healthy people distinguished between real and imagined information, it activated brain regions thought to be affected by schizophrenia.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: 'Spot the book' and 'Spot the country' - new tests for estimating people's IQ prior to brain-related illness or injury. The brains of men and women differ in how...
- One-year-old Babies Predict Other People’s Intentions
Babies as young as 12 months already have a rudimentary understanding of other people’s intentions. That’s according to Terje Falck-Ytter and colleagues who observed babies’ eye movements as they watched a video presentation of a person picking...
- Mirror Neuron Death March
Above image: Jim Peters almost wins the marathon Vancouver, 7 August 1954, with mirror neurons by Rizzolatti & Craighero (2004). Greg Hickok at Talking Brains has a series of posts dismantling the mirror neuron theory of action understanding. Actually,...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Mirror Neurons
Brain regions with mirror properties: A meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies Neuroscience Biobehavioral Rev. 2011 Jul 18. [Epub ahead of print] Molenberghs P, Cunnington R, Mattingley JB. Abstract Mirror neurons in macaque area F5 fire when an animal...
- Neuroscience & Real Life
Interesting application of neuroscience to real life over at the Creating Passionate Users blog. Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain. Kathy Sierra posted (almost a year ago; I'm slow sometimes) three reasons why it's good to avoid...