Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks
The comedians are right. The science proves it. A man's brain and a woman's brain really do work differently. The study involved volunteers who performed memory...Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders
Mice that couldn't be dissuaded from the object of their attention by a piece of sweet, crunchy cereal may help researchers find new treatments and cures for human disorders like autism and Parkinson's disease. For the first time, a psychiatric test for monitoring many human mental abnormalities has been adapted for use in mice, according to researchers at Purdue University, University of...Master planners in brain may coordinate other areas' roles in cognitive tasks
Scientists have used data from scans of 183 subjects to identify brain areas that consistently become active in a variety of cognitive tasks, such as reading, learning a rhythm or analyzing a picture. If the brain in action can be compared to a symphony, with specialized sections required to pitch in at the right time to produce the desired melody, then the regions highlighted by the new s...Improving the Efficiency of Common Filtration Tasks in your Laboratory
The majority of filtration tasks require low to medium vacuum, often not more than 120 to 50...Performance of Mental Tasks Affected by Sexual Orientation
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that sexual orientation has a real effect on how we perform mental tasks such as navigating with a map in a car but that old age does not discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation and withers all mens minds alike just ahead of womens. The University of Warwick researchers worked with the BBC to collect data from over 198,000 p...