Research articles

This section contains a collection of shorter blog style articles on scientific research material.

Smart smells

Smart smells

Here's an interesting study on cognition and memory as it relates to our olfactory (smell) sense. Could our brain respond to fragrance by increasing cognitive performance? It...

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Protect your heart with Light

Another score for our friend light! It's not new to anyone that sunlight exposure is good for health and wellbeing and is responsible for most of the vitamin D production in our...

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Intention alters brainwaves

Forgetting on purpose... What???... Research on patients with epilepsy whom had electrodes temporarily implanted near specific regions of the brain show that when we purposely...

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How our eyes process images

Sight and Vision are often compared to a movie camera that records a scene. Light effects the sensor (rods and cones of the eye) and the information is sent to the microcomputer...

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Frequency does matter

Researchers have found an interesting and useful fact about stimulating the brain. This particular study is using probes actually implanted in the brain but the findings are...

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Can you remember to forget

It is well established in the scientific community that memories are replayed and consolidated during sleep. In particular during our deepest non-REM stages of sleep. During this...

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Brainwaves into speech

Pretty cool use of EEG signals... Scientists are getting close to perfecting software that can turn brainwaves into speech. By calibrating a persons basic speech pattern such as...

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Brainwaves after death

The field of Necro-neuroscience (study of brain activity just before and after death) is a very niche field. This particular finding shows continuing Alpha brain activity 10...

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Brain controlled web surfing

This is soo cool... Using an implanted neural detector and decoder; paralysed volunteers are able to send emails to their friends, play music on youtube and buy products online....

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