Our brain’s understanding of spatial awareness is not triggered by sight alone, scientists have found, in a development that could help design technology for the visually impaired. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that our brain can use other senses – such as touch – to help us understand spatial awareness.
A new study uses creative engineering to unravel brain mechanisms associated with one of the most fundamental subjective human feelings: self-consciousness. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 28 issue of the journal Neuron, identifies a brain region called the temporo-parietal junction as being critical for the feeling of being an entity localized […]
Recent work, especially in the CAMERA study, used MRI to study the brains of migraine sufferers and has shown that a higher proportion of these patients exhibit lesions of the brain microvessels than the rest of the population. The results of this original study were published in the journal, BMJ, as an open access article. […]
Some people always know which way is north and how to get out of a building. Others can live in an apartment for years without knowing which side faces the street. Differences among people that include spatial skills, experience, and preferred strategies for wayfinding are part of what determines whether people get lost in buildings […]
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