Science news articles about 'primate brain'

... Florida and the University of Winnipeg have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly revealing that cousins of our earliest ancestors relied on smell more than ...

... The researchers measured gene expression in the brains of male and female primates from three species: humans, ... natural selection processes during the evolution of primates. Lead author Björn Reinius ...

... between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings indicate that some of these differences arose a very long time ago and have been ...

... Colonies of social insects such as ants and bees could collectively make decisions using mechanisms similar to those used in primate brains, according to new research from the University of Bristol.

... "As a result, dynamic processes of cognitive set shifting have not been explored at the single-unit level in the primate brain," explains the first author Dr. Tsukasa Kamigaki from the Department of ...

Groups of neurons that precisely keep time have been discovered in the primate brain by a team of researchers that includes Dezhe Jin, assistant professor of physics at Penn State University and two ...

... -T Cell immunological synapses after viral immunity in primate brain." Long after viral infections ... based vaccination therapy against aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme have provided ...

... issue of the journal Neuron, furthers our understanding of outcome-selective cells in the primate brain and provides important insight into how information about trial outcomes may influence learning ...

... 2.5 fold higher than normal in the brain memory hub of people with the chronic mental ... animals, suggesting that it has evolved a unique role in the primate brain. Mutant forms of KCNH2 in the heart ...