A general mechanism for perceptual decision-making in the human brain
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The use of functional magnetic resonance imaging and a categorization task in which subjects decide whether an image presented to test whether a similar mechanism is also at work for more complex decision. These findings show that even for complex object categories, the comparison of the outputs of different pools of selectively tuned neurons could be a general mechanism by which the human brain computes perceptual decisions.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Molecular insights into human brain evolution
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Rapidly advancing knowledge of genome structure and sequence enables new means of the analysis of specific DNA changes associated with the differences between the human brain and that of other mammals. Studies implicate evolutionary changes in messengers RNA and protein expression level, as well as DNA changes that alter amino acid sequences.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Sleep is of the brain, by the brain and for the brain
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Sleep is a widespread biological phenomenon, and its scientific study is proceeding at multiple levels at the same time. The study of sleep also highlights on the understanding of consciousness, which undergoes alteration in parallel with sleep-induced changed in the brain.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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