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Trusting your instincts leads you to the right answer

...lt, involuntary subconscious processes for certain tasks is actually more effective than using our higher-level cognitive functions." The study shows an instance when our rational mind is more likely to perform worse than our subconscious ?but the conscious mind still tends to veto the subconscious. T...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

...ch measures the ability to perform such real-world tasks as grasping a block, gripping a drinking glass, pinching to pick up a small marble or ball bearing, and putting your hand on your head -- improved by nearly 10 percent. And their average score rose by nearly 20 percent on the Box-and-Blocks Test, whi...

Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes

... Even a child's brain handles these contradictory tasks easily in rapid object recognition. Pixel-like information enters from the retina and passes in a fast feed-forward, bottom-up sweep through the hierarchical architecture of the visual cortex. What makes the Poggio lab's model so innovative and power...

Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'

...ent that was in many ways similar to the other two tasks but did not involve the mental projection of oneself through time. Bill Clinton was chosen because pre-testing showed he was easy for participants to visualize in a variety of situations. Comparing images of brain activity in response to the "self...

Man's best friend lends insight into human evolution

...other individuals in order to cooperate in complex tasks is a basic part of everyday life that we humans take for granted. But, according to evolutionary psychologist Brian Hare at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, this ability is present in other species as well. As Hare discusses in the April issue o...

Intelligent materials to regenerate bone tissue

...ions appropriate to healthy bones. The specific tasks of the project focus on putting the finishing touches to the intelligent material, based on nanoparticles and of a biodegradable nature. Also to be developed is the cell culture in three dimensions, as well as ensuring the biocompatibility of the mat...

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a general 'control switch' for protein activity

...hout thousands of proteins performing myriad vital tasks within cells. Since malfunctioning proteins can cause disease, the study of protein structure and function can lead to the development of drugs and treatments for numerous disorders. For example, the discovery of insulin’s role in diabetes paved the ...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...of thousands of individuals to accomplish complex tasks – manufacturing, community defense, environmental control and maintenance, food production, brood-rearing and education. Like human civilizations, bee societies follow organizational principles, such as following social rules (like human customs and ...

Stroke study sheds light on left-right brain divide

...ring a meal we often have to keep track of several tasks at once and make sure we perform each one correctly and at the right time.’...

Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space

...better, enabling the solution of massively complex tasks beyond the capabilities of a single machine or local network. By using Grid technology, Gower and King intend to compute 5-years worth of MERIS data to determine global estimates of Sargassum biomass and its contribution to ocean productivity. "S...

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