Tag: NEURONS

Share Got Facebook on the brain? It could be because Facebook is your brain. Sort of. That's what Carnegie Mellon neurology researcher Alison Barth claims in a new study published in the December 22nd issue of a journal called Neuron. As LiveScience explains, Barth and her team of researchers arrived at their conclusion after identifying and observing a small group of highly active neurons in ...

You may think that you've taken preemptive measures, and are immune to the pop-up barrages and other advertising gimmicks typical of online retail sites. But according to a recent article in the New York Times, you're probably just as vulnerable as ever. That's because more and more retailers are employing advertising techniques based on something called neuromarketing -- the neurological ...

Neuroscientists have made significant advances in the field of brain-mapping in recent years, but studying the actions of individual neurons has been almost impossible, particularly for moving subjects. According to Wired, a recent study published in Nature indicates that scientists, who previously could only study the simultaneous actions of millions of neurons, can actually monitor individual ...