Sentences with phrase «special human brain»

Rebecca Saxe, at MIT, has discovered in some intriguing studies that there is special human brain hardware in the right half brain that appears specialized for determining what the intentions of another person might be.

Not exact matches

Human milk is full of special sugars that feed brain cells.

Why is the human brain special?

The findings, appearing online Feb. 19, 2015, in Current Biology, may lend insight into not only what makes the human brain special but also why people get some diseases, such as autism and Alzheimer's disease, whereas chimpanzees don't.

The challenge facing roboticists is to take general - purpose computers and program them to match the largely special - purpose human brain, with its ultraoptimized perceptual inheritance and other peculiar evolutionary traits.

They use a special type of neural network called a «deep neural network» to do the processing — so named because its learning is performed through a deep layered structure inspired by the human brain.

Ironically, Science Connection boasts no special insight into the science of human reproduction, unlike services such as eHarmony, which claims to have «a scientific approach to match highly compatible singles,» using a system based on «29 Key Dimensions of Compatibility,» or Chemistry.com, which professes an understanding of core aspects of personality, «even down to the level of brain chemistry.»

They then put the dishes into special chambers called bioreactors that keep them warm and in gentle motion reminiscent of a womb, encouraging the cells to form blobs with working neurons and many other features of a full - size human brain.

Ever since Alex Pollen was a boy talking with his neuroscientist father, he wanted to know how evolution made the human brain so special.

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was funded by a special research project of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)(SFB - 35, led by Harald Sitte) and presented as a highlight at the international conference on «Organization for Human Brain Mapping.»

A special class of brain cells reflects the outside world, revealing a new avenue for human understanding, connecting and learning

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Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa has captured a special place in contemporary fiction, writing stories that are equally inspired by neuroscience and the human spirit.

In this special series, we take a look at the connections — fascinating, foreboding, and all too real — between the shifting environment and the human brain.

Austrian startup TriLite Technologies recently partnered with the Vienna University of Technology to demonstrate how the human brain can be convinced it's seeing mobile 3 - D vignettes without the use of special eyewear.