Sorry, parents – video games are good for the mind
Posted by admin in Computers on 17. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
For some time now, it’s been one of those “well-known facts” that playing video games increases one’s hand-eye coordination… much to the consternation of parents and spouses trying to convince family members that their obsessive gaming has no redeeming value. Now, research conducted at the University of Rochester indicates that playing action video games also [...]
Mind reading – scientists translate brain signals into words
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 09. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Larger, numbered button-like electrodes (ECoGs) alongside the microECoGs indicated by the 4×4 circle grid at the end of the green and orange wires on the brain of a volunteer patient Using the same technology that allowed them to accurately detect the brain signals controlling arm movements that we looked at last year, researchers at the [...]
Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Boost Visual Memory 110 Percent
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 14. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Literally donning an electrode-studded thinking cap can improve your memory by 110 percent, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The method applies electricity to the head to inhibit a specific region of the brain that has been implicated in autism. The finding is a follow-up to previous research at the same lab that [...]
Fast thinking flies to help build better robots
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 14. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
A fly being shown a striped LED pattern (left), and the area of the fly’s brain that processes motion As anyone who has ever tried to swat a fly will know, the little beasties have almost impossibly-fast reflexes. It turns out, in fact, that they have a response time faster than that of any computer. [...]
An Injection Straight to the Brain Makes Rats Forget Their Fears
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 04. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
Just about everyone can think of some memory he or she would rather forget. For some, it’s something like a relationship gone wrong, or high school. For others — like soldiers returning from war zones — those bad memories can be highly disruptive, impeding the ability to live a normal life. But Puerto Rican researchers [...]
