How stimulating is the stimulus?

19 Jun, 2009 07:53 pm About a year and a half ago, Ron Wilcox, the superintendent of schools in Madison County, North Carolina, had a big problem...

Scientists Discover ?Volume Control? for Connections between Brain Regions

29 Aug, 2007 12:59 pm Nerve axons, the hair-like processes that connect brain regions, have been likened to telephone wires in that they faithfully relay information without...

A Robot Controlled by a Simulated Rat Brain

20 Aug, 2007 11:09 am For a long time scientists have been quite intrigued by the rat?s ability to perform spatial tasks such as maze solving. Rats can combine scent and visual...

Make Assurance Double Sure ? Dual Networks for Behavioral Control

9 Jul, 2007 02:01 pm The ability to exercise voluntary control over one?s own actions forms a central aspect of what it means to be human. The number of possible responses...