Posts Tagged: brain
Brain Study explores lasting impacts of COVID-19
June 23, 2020
Neuroscientists exploring the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on the brain hope their newest study will provide answers for health-care professionals…
New study advances quest to better understand consciousness
October 10, 2019
In his landmark 2006 study, Western University’s renowned neuroscientist Adrian Owen and his collaborators showed for the first time ever…
Western University develops first-of-its-kind task-based map of the human cerebellum
July 22, 2019
It is the second largest part in the human brain and contains more neurons than any other. Tucked under the…
New BrainsCAN research examines how diet and obesity can form memories
June 4, 2019
A new study from Western University shows how the brain controls what information becomes memories and the role diet and…
New life hack for ‘de-blurring’ visual images without glasses
October 18, 2016
An international team of neuroscientists has shown that a person’s ability to see fine visual detail can be sharpened by…
Listen to your heart – it may tell you something about memory
April 5, 2016
Follow your heart because a new study from Western University shows that your memories already do. Investigators at Western’s renowned…
Western’s Goodale Elected Fellow of Prestigious Royal Society
May 3, 2013
Goodale is one of the world’s leading visual neuroscientists best known for his research of the human brain as it performs different kinds of visual tasks and is a pioneer in the study of visuomotor control in neurological patients.
Blind brain receives visual cues for identifying object shape
February 15, 2013
Researchers at Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute (BMI) used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain of renowned blind echolocator Daniel Kish as he listened to recordings of his own mouth clicks and the echoes reflected back from different objects.
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