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Rat Sleep

February 19, 2002

Dreaming helps rats remember and learn from the day's events.

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Reading Brain

February 18, 2002

Hearing and deaf people's brains process words differently when reading English

Read moreReading Brain

Parrot Learning

February 15, 2002

Parrots learn to put together words much like babies do.

Read moreParrot Learning

Sheep Memory

January 9, 2002

Sheep can remember the faces of other sheep and humans.

Read moreSheep Memory

Tourette’s Treatment

November 7, 2001

Nicotine patches can cut the medicine needed for Tourette's, reducing devastating side effects.

Read moreTourette’s Treatment

Drugs vs. Therapy

September 7, 2001

Drugs and talk therapy both bring about changes in the brain.

Read moreDrugs vs. Therapy

Multitasking

August 31, 2001

Multitasking -- doing several things at once -- is less efficient than doing one thing at a time.

Read moreMultitasking

Myelin Transplant

August 30, 2001

Transplanting Schwann cells into the brain to treat multiple sclerosis

Read moreMyelin Transplant

Circadian Rhythms

August 29, 2001

Studying the chemicals responsible for re-setting the body's internal clock

Read moreCircadian Rhythms

Stuttering

August 27, 2001

People who stutter have more abnormalities in the brain areas responsible for language.

Read moreStuttering

Math Anxiety

August 16, 2001

Students anxious about math do worse on tests, even when they know the material, because their anxiety takes up valuable energy that could have been used for the math.

Read moreMath Anxiety

Smell and Behavior

August 10, 2001

Teasing out how the nose works and how the sense of smell is important in everyday life.

Read moreSmell and Behavior

Computer Personality Test

August 8, 2001

Psychologists will give an artificially intelligent machine named GAC (developed by the Mindpixel project) a psychological exam.

Read moreComputer Personality Test

Cause and Effect

August 6, 2001

Seeing an effect, people will think they've also seen the cause.

Read moreCause and Effect

Hamsters

July 19, 2001

How hormones work in the brains of hamsters

Read moreHamsters

Dolphin Brains

July 5, 2001

Learning how the dolphin brain evolved can tell us more about our own brain

Read moreDolphin Brains

Language Trouble

June 13, 2001

Teasing out how the brain processes long and complex sentences to find ways to treat patients with conditions that causes impairment.

Read moreLanguage Trouble

Schizophrenia Virus

June 8, 2001

A retrovirus embedded in the human genome may contribute to schizophrenia.

Read moreSchizophrenia Virus

Momma’s Voice

May 30, 2001

A brain transplant can make a baby chicken respond to the call of a mother quail.

Read moreMomma’s Voice

Word Associations

May 11, 2001

How people form associations between words, concepts and objects.

Read moreWord Associations

Musical Pleasure

May 8, 2001

Why is music pleasureable? (because it may help us learn better, in the end, helping us survive)

Read moreMusical Pleasure

Humor on the Brain

April 19, 2001

MRI scans show the parts of the brain stimulated by different types of jokes.

Read moreHumor on the Brain

Eye Tracking

April 11, 2001

Using an eye-tracking device to learn how children process spoken language

Read moreEye Tracking

Learning English

April 4, 2001

Computerized speech can teach Japanese adults to distinguish Ôr' and Ôl'

Read moreLearning English
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