Check out these behind-the-scenes photos from our day filming with Helen Neville and colleagues at the Brain Development Lab at the University of Oregon.
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September 22nd, 2008
Spark Blog: Photos: Behind the Scenes at the Brain Development Lab
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September 18th, 2008
In the News: Number Approximation: Go with Your Gut!
New research shows that humans' instinctual and symbolic number systems may be more closely related than was previously thought. Test your own approximation skills!
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September 10th, 2008
Spark Blog: How Does Your Brain React to Gibberish?
The scientists in Oregon wanted to see how brains react to mistakes in grammar, even when the listener isn’t fluent in the language being spoken!
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September 9th, 2008
In the News: European Magpie: No Bird Brain
Until recently only great apes and some other big-brained mammals were thought capable of passing the “mirror test.” Enter the European magpie.
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September 5th, 2008
In the News: Did Early Europeans Interbreed with Neanderthals?
There were thousands of years that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens inhabited the same regions in Europe. How much did these groups intermingle?
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August 27th, 2008
Spark Blog: Inside Alan Alda’s Brain
In Oregon, we peered with both an MRI and a brain wave monitor into Alan’s brain to find out how he employs it for language and tool use.
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August 25th, 2008
In the News: Why Your Voice Is Quieter Than an Orangutan’s
All great apes, including humans, have vocal tract air sacs that they use to call out loud. Ours have evolved to be smaller than the other apes’, leaving them with louder voices.
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August 19th, 2008
Spark Blog: Video: Why I Volunteer to Have My Brain Scanned
Brian Moore is one of the people who has volunteered a couple of times for Helen Neville’s language fMRI studies at the University of Oregon. Find out why in this video clip.
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August 16th, 2008
In the News: Rethinking the Boundaries of “Human Rights”
There are big differences between apes and humans, but we do share the majority of our DNA and other characteristics. Should some "human rights" extend to our great ape cousins?
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August 13th, 2008
In the News: Why We Attribute Human Qualities to Machines
Now researchers observe that the more "human" a robot seems, the more active are the brain regions that think about the intentions and desires of others -- even if that other is a machine.
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