Tag: Neuroscience

China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces

At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a...

Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use

When they conducted postmortem examinations of the monkeys’ brains, the team also confirmed that the treated animals had replenished levels of dopamine. In the...

Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online

When Elon Musk arrived at VivaTech, a leading technology conference in France, his presence had an immediate effect, as event founder Maurice Levy of...

Neuroscience Says This Simple Brain Habit Can Make Anybody More Creative

Kids say the darnedest things. The come up with the most creative stories and ideas.Well, what if I were to tell you that a...

A Brain Chemical Helps Neurons Know When to Start a Movement

By washing through the brain, neuromodulators “allow you to govern the excitability of a large region of the brain more or less in the...

Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories

In the moment between reading a phone number and punching it into your phone, you may find that the digits have mysteriously gone astray—even...

Keep Forgetting Things? Neuroscience Says It Might Be a Hidden Brain Advantage

Forgetting things can be annoying. It can even be worrying. What was that colleague's name? What time is the appointment tomorrow? Was that vendor offering us 25...

Attention Disorders: IISc team studying ‘how brain regions contribute to attention’ – Times of India

BENGALURU: A team led by Prof Sridharan Devarajan which is studying brain regions and mechanisms that mediate human attention so as to develop therapies...

How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?

Our mushy brains seem a far cry from the solid silicon chips in computer processors, but scientists have a long history of comparing the...

To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA

Faced with a threat, the brain has to act fast, its neurons making new connections to learn what might spell the difference between life...

Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Neuroscience All Agree: Your Daily Routine Needs More ‘Non-time’

Both science and history tell us that getting your daily routine right is essential for success. No wonder the internet is full of admiring...

If You Transplant a Human Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow?

Ultimately Vetovitz did not have the surgery, and paralysis remained a lingering hurdle for approving body transplants. At WIRED, we’ve covered brain computer interfaces,...

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