In the human brain, designed by evolution, every tiny part is very different from every other tiny part.
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People understand words better than value curves, because a love of stories, intrigue and relationships is hard-wired in the human brain.
In the human brain, a synapse is the structure which enables a neuron to send information to other parts of the brain.
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In other words, the agency asked that we try to estimate the lorcaserin concentration in the human brain as compared to the rat brain.
About 80 European research institutions and some from outside the EU will take part in the Human Brain Project, which is estimated to cost more than 1bn euros.
Dr Gerome Breen, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, said that the differences found in the rats were very likely to have their equivalent in the human brain.
Instead, they argued, a fortuitous mutation in the human brain may have triggered an explosion in human creativity 50, 000 years ago, leading to a sudden appearance of personal ornaments, skilfully-crafted art, novel tools and weapons.
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And nothing is more so than the most complicated structure we know of in the universe, the human brain.
Yet in just one of those blinks, the human brain nearly tripled in size, due primarily to the dramatic expansion of a special structure that allows modern people to do things that their ancestors couldn't even imagine.
In the 1980s researchers found high levels of EGF receptors in human tumors of the brain, lung, breast, bladder and pancreas.
The next 20 hours see a pruning back of those connections, rather as in the very young human brain.
To that end, many major corporations have begun to take special interest in how understanding the human brain can help them better understand consumers.
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As a study by UCLA found in 2007, the human brain is wired to over-estimate the size of risks, underestimate your ability to handle them and downplay the costs of not taking them.
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Unlike the popular human time-sink, this was all in the name of science: specifically, simulating the human brain.
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Meanwhile the Human Brain Project will attempt to simulate the trillions of neural connections that make up a human brain in an effort to comprehend how the organ functions.
This fall Dirks and six scientists at the University of Toronto proved the existence of the cells in human brain tumors, pinpointing a small group of cells believed to be the driver of the tumors' growth.
It is surely no coincidence that much of the activity Dr Okubo found is in that characteristically human part of the brain, the enlarged cerebral cortex, rather than in the limbic system.
Perhaps that's part of the motivation behind a new initiative to "map" the human brain -- in a similar fashion to the unravelling of the human genome.
It was the need to fit in more columns that forced the human brain into its crinkly, wrinkled shape.
The prefrontal cortex is the most peculiarly enlarged part of the brain in human beings, but whereas the part near the top of the head generally seems to be involved in conventional intelligence, the "orbital" region tends to handle the processing of social information that is, assessing the moods and personalities of other people.
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They have developed a program that filters out the noise in much the same way that the human brain's reticular activating system filters out most of our sensual stimuli, and only passes on the information we need to function and survive.
Deep-learning software tries to emulate, albeit in a still primitive way, the activity in layers of neurons in the neocortex, the part of the human brain where thinking occurs.
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One of the real shortcomings of the human brain, at least in the business world, is the tendency to hold on to the past.
They remain similar in different mammals, but the human brain is crammed with more of them.
On a recent visit, I stood in the middle of a giant human brain, constructed from 256 MRI images.
The IBM chip uses the structure of the human brain as map for the design of the circuits in their chip.
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That is similar to the way the human visual system works, with particular clusters of nerve cells in the brain adapted to respond to, say, horizontal lines, or to lines that run on diagonals.
Read Montague, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has demonstrated that subjects' brains register a preference for Coke or Pepsi that correlates with the product they choose in blind taste tests. (His study is not funded by the cola giants.) The brain of "Subject P" on the monitor in the Human Neuroimaging Lab, for instance, shows he is a Pepsi lover.
Allen's institute is devoted to research on how the human brain works, particularly in regard to health and disease.
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Dr Hibbeln announced their conclusions on January 17th at a scientific meeting organised in London by the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition.
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