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Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered ...
New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and ...
Contrary to popular belief, the mocked and criticized "Spock's Brain" is not actually the worst episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
and even to languages made up for television shows such as “Star Trek” and “Game of Thrones.” To study how the brain responds to these artificial languages, MIT neuroscientists convened ...
Within the human brain, a network of regions has evolved ... and even to languages made up for television shows such as "Star Trek" and "Game of Thrones." "We find that constructed languages ...
To explore how the brain processes conlangs, the researchers invited speakers of Esperanto and several other constructed languages to MIT for a weekend conference in November 2022. The other languages ...
Two Scots women who have lost four members of their family to brain tumours are to trek the Sahara Desert in their memory. Louise Cooper and Claire Cordiner will be the only Scots to walk a ...
It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.
Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...
Richie Faulkner, a guitarist for legendary metal rock band Judas Priest, revealed he has permanent brain damage from a stroke he suffered in 2022. Faulkner, 45, suffered an acute cardiac aortic ...
A Birmingham man is preparing to run a half-marathon and a full marathon in support of his aunt who was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Ludlow resident Rachel Massey, then 50, was forced to ...