The retinas then convert the image into electrical impulses. These impulses are sent to your brain. Your brain "sees" the words and gives meaning to them. Your brain then decides whether or not to ...

The human brain includes two hemispheres connected by a bundle of nerves. The left hemisphere controls movement for the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere directs the left side.

Scientists have created the first map of every neuron in an adult fly brain. The research team says this first wiring diagram ...

Sejnowski, also at the Salk Institute, to focus on the role of methylation in the brain. To pinpoint the location of methyl groups ... “Now that we have these epigenomic maps, we can start to study ...

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Simply thinking about where you are going may be able to activate mental maps in the brain, new research suggests. As people ...

for every MERFISH-imaged cell across the entire brain. The high-resolution spatial map of cells, with a transcriptome-wide expression profile associated with each cell, allows inference of cell ...

In the first weeks after birth, brain volume is typically about a third of what it will be in adulthood. By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain ...

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...

In North America, they contact other ravens to tell them the location of a carcass. Ravens are specialized feeders on the carcasses of large mammals such as moose during the harsh winter months of ...

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