Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Scicon Review
Attention: inhibition or facilitation?
What are the mechanisms behind attention, our ability to focus on some aspects or stimuli, and ignore others? Is it due to an inhibition of all other inputs than the attended one or by facilitating the one input and not the oth...
Detecting a touch
What happens in the brain when a stimulus is detected? How does the brain activity look when there is no such detection? This question has been addressed by study by de Lafuente et al. in a study of monkeys. Using somatosensory...
NeuroImage special issue on social cognitive neuroscience
Many relevant articles were published in the December 2005 issue of NeuroImage, which is a special issue on social cognitive neuroscience.
Social reasoning in schizophrenia
How do people suffering from schizophrenia think socially? In this study by Russell et al. patients were asked to verbally describe cartoons of different social complexity. The results demonstrate that patients suffering from s...
Beauty in the brain of the beholder
A new study by Jacobsen et al. demonstrate brain areas involved in aesthetic judgements of beauty.
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