Scientists found out why smart people are smart. In order to identify the parts of the brain involved in the thinking process, they have analyzed the brains of 182 Vietnam veterans who suffered penetrating head injuries. If you are interested in this article, please click the following link.
link: http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120412001097
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Do you think that delicated exercise may make you curb addiction? The study, conducted by researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, has proposed answers of the question. If you have an interest of this, please read it out !
This is a Korean article in The Science Times. Dr. Kim Jin Hyun and Royal Sebastian in Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have identified the interaction between nerve cells and brain signals in the hippocampus in collaboration with the Janelia Farm reserch group under Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
link: http://www.sciencetimes.co.kr/article.do?atidx=0000059519
Is a project to map the brain’s full communications network worth the money ?
link : http://www.nature.com/news/neuroscience-making-connections-1.10260
What’s in store for robotics in 2012 ? please check this article.
link : http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robotics-trends-for-2012
Researchers have long known that the “classical” language regions, like Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, are involved in how the brain interprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
New vocal translator from MS!
link : http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/12/microsoft-demos-vocal-translator-at-techfest-2012-uses-your-own/
This article shows that physicists and anesthesiologist have demonstrated a plausible mechanism for encoding synaptic memory in microtubules, major components of the structural cytoskeletion within neurons.
link : http://in.news.yahoo.com/brain-memory-code-cracked-085514436.html
Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime.