Hell in a handbasket?

24 Jun, 2008 11:35 am So what is information technology doing to our brains? Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has written a book about the upside and the downside of a world...

Slowly Developing Primates are Not Dim-witted

25 Apr, 2008 09:56 am Some primates have evolved big brains because their extra brainpower helps them live and reproduce longer, an advantage that outweighs the demands of extra...

Unconscious Decisions in the Brain

23 Apr, 2008 11:32 am Already several seconds before we consciously make a decision its outcome can be predicted from unconscious activity in the brain.

The Claim: Politically Liberal Brains are Better at Handling Change

13 Sep, 2007 03:04 pm A recent report in Nature Neuroscience has gotten a lot of press. The headlines proclaim that "left-wing" brains are different from "right wing" brains...

Finding the Best Way to Train Older Brains

3 Sep, 2007 01:30 pm Memory training programs are becoming popular, but do they work for everyone? The bad news is that the older we get, the less likely we are to show improvements...

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...

Spot the Difference: How Do Brains Tell one Place from Another?

25 Jul, 2007 05:11 pm Our brains are continuously bombarded by shifting patterns of sensory inputs evoked by our environment. Even subtle changes in these patterns need to...

The Neuroscience of Decision-making

5 Jul, 2007 11:54 am We often make decisions based on imperfect information from a variety of potentially conflicting sources. A new experiment reveals how monkeys and their...

The Political Brain

29 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm A recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation bias. Psychologist Drew Westen,...

The Political Brain

19 Jun, 2007 02:29 pm Research in clinical and social psychology takes up what prompts our political judgement.

I Think I Can Feel My Brain Evolving

29 May, 2007 07:29 pm There?s a Far Side cartoon where a kid in a classroom raises his hand and says, ?May I be excused? My brain is full.? After two intense days at a brain...

The Adult Brain Can Rapidly Reorganise to Compensate for Functional Interference

21 May, 2007 12:40 pm When a person suffers brain damage, for example a stroke, their ability to move their limbs is often impaired. Over time, some degree of recovery can occur...