NEWRON: Vol IV, Issue VI
Natan Davidovics
NeuroEngineering Weekly Review Of News
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Interesting NeuroEngineering links:
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New job blog: http://neuroengjobs.blogspot.com/
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Natan Davidovics
NEWRON Publishing Corporation
Forgotten Memories Are Still in Your Brain
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/forgottenmemories/For anyone who’s ever forgotten something or someone they wish they could remember, a bit of solace: Though the memory is hidden from your conscious mind, it might not be gone. In a study of college students, brain imaging detected patterns of activation that corresponded to memories the students thought they’d lost. “Even though your brain still holds this information, you might not always have access to it,”
Improving Cognitive Skills With Music
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/168846.phpRegularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.
There is growing evidence that musicians have structurally and functionally different brains compared with non-musicians. In particular, the areas of the brain used to process music are larger or more active in musicians.
Wires Inserted Into Human Brain Reveal Speech Surprise
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/speaking-brain/A rare set of high-resolution readouts taken directly from the wired-in brains of epileptics has provided an unprecedented look at how the brain processes language. Though only a glimpse, it was enough to show that part of the brain’s language center handles multiple tasks, rather than one. In a study published in Science, Sahin’s team studied a region known as Broca’s center, named for French anatomist Paul Pierre Broca who observed that two people with damage to a certain spot in the front of their brains had lost the ability to speak, but could still think.