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Showing posts with label fascinating facts about the human brain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fascinating facts about the human brain. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Scientists shed new light on how the brain detects motion



Scientists have discovered that the neural pathways involved in detecting motion differ depending on whether the moving object is alive or not

If you’ve managed to avoid getting hit by a bus today, you should thank your brain, which is designed to detect motion in order to help us safely navigate the world around us. This ability is so vital for our survival as a species that we’ve even developed the capacity to detect “implied motion,” such as movement that is suggested in still photographs. Yet while most of us take this for granted, scientists have long struggled to understand the neural pathways that control this essential function.
Publishing their findings in the journal NeuroImage, a team of researchers from Dartmouth College have now shed new light on how the brain interprets motion, indicating that the two pathways involved in this process may be more integrated than previously thought. Additionally, their results suggest that motion is processed differently depending on whether the moving object is animate or inanimate.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Practising music improves the symmetry of the brain.


If you think music is good for you then a little practice is even better. Get to learn the effect that a couple of hours of practice a day have on your brain by reading the lines below.

Monday, October 12, 2015

5 Logic problems to put your brain in work.

Below are listed several problems that need some logic to be solved.




1. MILK JUGS

A milkman has two empty jugs: a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug.
How van he measure exactly one gallon without wasting any milk?


2.SOCKS AND SHOES

You are in the dark and in the floor there are six shoes of three colors, and a heap of twenty four socks, black and brown. How many socks and shoes must you take into the light to be certain that you have a matching pair of socks and a matching pair of shoes?

3.TWIN BROTHERS

Suppose there are twin brothers; one which always tells the truth and one which always lies.
What single yes/no question could you ask to either brother to figure out which is which?


4.CUT THE CAKE

How is it possible to cut a traditional circular cake into 8 equal size pieces, with only 3 cuts?


5.FOUR DIGIT NUMBER

What is the four digit number in which the first digit is one third the second, the third is the sum of the first and the second, and the last is three times the second.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Can you find the answers to these 12 riddles?

1. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
2. What has 4 fingers and a thumb but is not living?
3. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
4. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies.
    We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?
5. Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?
6. What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive and run when it's dead?
7. What gets wet when drying?
8. I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay, you move towards me, yet distant I'll stay.
9. I am a mother and a father, but have never given birth. I'm rarely still but I never wander.What am I?
10. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can't go outside.What am I?
11. I can only live when there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
12. Every night I am told what to do, and each morning I do what I am told. But still I don't escape your scold.


Source: www.dose.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Why do songs get stuck in our heads?

Why some tunes lodge in our brain isn't so clear. Anyway there are a few theories.

Can't get a new song out of your head? You've probably got an earworm, which tends to be this little fragment of the song, often the chorus that keeps playing and replaying like it's stuck on the loop of your head. The phenomenon is quite common. A recent study shows that 91% of the people reported having an earworm once a week, while about a quarter of them more than once a day.

Earworms are involuntary and tend to occur in eight seconds but the reason why and what triggers them remain still a mystery. Music cognition research suggests that earworms have something to do with how music affects the brain's motor cortex. When people are listening to music there is a lot of activity in the motor planning  area. People are participating even if they are still. Researchers believe an earworm is your brain "singing" and that actually it turns to be that most people find them somewhat enjoyable.

Once an earworm lodges in your psyche, how do you get rid of it? The best method is for people to distract themselves by listening to other music or something that involves language, tackling a crossword perhaps or having a conversation. A second technique is listening to the earworm song itself repeatedly until the earworm is exhausted.



Saturday, March 1, 2014

The E-book "Staying Sharp" with brain fitness content.

Today we are offering a copy of a popular e-book called 'Staying Sharp, Successful Aging and Your Brain'.  You can read it online or even download it if you want. 

brain training books pdf
Here Brainy fellows take a look at the cover.


This E-book takes you to several stages of informing you about your brain and what happens there , for example like how are memories created.  
There are also outlines of the process of 'successfully aging' from the neuroscience perspective. 
Also the largest chapter in this ebook is all about our favorite topic here Taking Control of your Brain Health. 

                                       Let me see the e-book

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