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• Does your brain have a mind of its own?

  How many times has this happened to you? You leave work, decide that you need to get groceries on the way home, take a cellphone call and forget all about your plan. Next thing you know, you've driven home and forgotten all about the groceries. Or Read More...
  Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:31 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain aging, Brain evolution, Brain, cognitive enhancement

• Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans

  Neuropsin, a protein that plays a role in learning and memory, is expressed only in the central nervous systems of humans and originated less than 5 million years ago, Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers have found. ... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:48 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neurobiology, Brain evolution, Neuropsin

• Mind-altering media

  Modern media such as TV and computer games are changing our minds, and the more we are exposed to them the greater the changes. They are making us smarter and better at some tasks, but worse at others. And there is no getting away from the fact t... Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:00 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain evolution, Media

• Could our big brains come from Neanderthals?

  Neanderthals may have given modern humans a gene that helped develop superior brains by interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, according to researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago. The team found ... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:11 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 5 Comments

  Tags: Human evolution, Brain evolution, Brain, Neanderthals

• DNA trail points to human brain evolution

  The human brain may have evolved beyond that of our primate cousins because our brain cells are better at sticking in place, researchers say. The genetic assembly of the ten billion neurons in the human brain relies on precise expression of adhesi... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:10 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neurobiology, Human evolution, Brain evolution