Cognitive neuroscience

Take a moment and look back on a memory that you would rather forget. Maybe you are picturing a relationship that ended badly, or perhaps the death of a family member. Maybe you are remembering a traumatic incident in your past, or maybe you are a war veteran trying not to relive the horrors of war. Regardless of the memory you have recalled, it is likely that, at some point in your life, you have come across one of these painful memories and wished there was a way to erase them from your mind.…

of sleep the brain involuntarily constructs a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations, parallel to brain activity in several regions of the brain that control our cognitive processes. Because these parts of the brain are constantly being stimulated, there is reason to believe that dreaming has an effect on our cognitive development. After investigating the current available research, it has been demonstrated that there is some correlation between neurological developments and dreaming.…

Yaju Munikar Professor Derrick Credito English 101 17 May 2016 Why do kids have sharp memory power? Isn’t it amazing how kids can recall your name even after a long time they’ve seen you. We might not notice it but children have really sharp memory at recognizing face, identifying pictures of animals, non-living things etc. It is also said that it’s much easier for a magician to fool an adult than a child and children have a much easier…

Some important gender differences are: Physical development, cognitive development, and socioemotional development. An example for physical development is that females have twice as much body fat, which tends to direct itself to the thighs, hips, and breasts, while in males to the abdomen. No gender differences have been found in cognitive intelligence between males and females, although something called visuospatial skill have been found to be more…

Dawn broke to an explosion of bird songs, the cacophony startling Booker awake with a disgruntled groan. Unimpressed by the early morning alarm clock, he angrily pulled his pillow over his head and attempted to drown out the noise. But after several minutes, the humorous fact that the sound easily penetrated through the downy feathers brought a good-natured smile to his lips, and with a resigned sigh, he threw the pillow to the floor and sat up. From across the room, Tom yawned loudly, a…

He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. Rainsford woke up to the brick walls of Zaroff’s chateau. After all the events that happened last night he was very tired. He got up and cooked breakfast with some food still left in Zaroff’s house. He went on with his life like nothing was wrong living on Ship Trap Island for a few weeks or so. One early Saturday morning he woke up to a loud knocking on the door. He expected it to be one of Zaroff’s men or one of his friends. But…

Sonogenetics is the use of ultrasonic soundwaves to control neurons to activate or deactivate cells. This can also be done through electrical currents or light (optogenetics). But, the issue with optogenetics, according to the website ZME Science’s article Ultrasounds used to control neurons in a worm's brain by Tibi Puiu is that light is unable to go through the body like sound can. Neuroscientists need a way to activate singular neurons reliably, specifically ones in deep inside the brain.…

“3...2...1...ACTION!,” the camera began to roll. My friends rushed the “stage”, as I meanwhile tried my best to blend in with the shadows of the abandoned attic. I despised acting, because of my shyness. My friends and I would surpass ordinary levels of imagination movies we would create in our attic. Normally, I would be successful in hiding. However, this time proved otherwise. Right in the middle of my rejoicing over my success, my friend, the director, spotted me. “Oh shoot..”, I murmured.…

THBT the media puts too much pressure on young women In today’s society, the idea of self-perfection is one that arises as the answer to many of our current problems, specifically those of our younger demographic. The irresponsible and unethical actions performed and displayed by this group are often linked to the supposed negativity that the media of today publicizes. However, when clearly analyzed, these so-called “destructive messages” are simply a product of our biased perceptions within…

variety of different subjects within neural engineering; some of which include brain-machine interface, neurorobotics, tissue regeneration, neuro-rehabilitation, neuro-therapeutics, neural control, neural prostheses, and theoretical/computational neuroscience. The possibilities in this specialty field are endless. Your average neural engineer will spend years working towards and researching in one of these particular subjects. Usually, they hope…