Abstract Music perceptual abilities are subjective and exhibit high inter-individual variability. Twenty-nine participants with varying degrees of musical training were tested for musical perception ability with the Profile of Music Perception Skills (PROMS) and brain structural measures obtained via diffusion tensor imaging. Controlling for the period of training, TBSS results showed that individuals with better musical perception abilities showed increased deviations from linear...
Thu Apr 04, 2019 03:00
Abstract Motor functions are frequently impaired in Asperger syndrome (AS). In this study, we examined the motor cortex structure and function using navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and correlated the results with the box and block test (BBT) of manual dexterity and physical activity in eight boys with AS, aged 8–11 years, and their matched controls. With nTMS, we found less focused cortical representation areas of distinct hand...
Thu Apr 04, 2019 03:00
Abstract The nature and extent to which the cerebellum contributes to language processing is not clear. By using fMRI to examine differences in activation intensity in areas associated with motor and language processes, we advance our understanding of how this subcortical structure contributes to language and, more specifically, reading. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data was collected from two groups of adults. One group was classified as typical (proficient) readers,...
Thu Apr 04, 2019 03:00
NASA has catalogued all the bacteria and fungi on the ISS to help better prepare for future missions to Mars
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London's Ultra Low Emission Zone, introduced this week, is targeting drivers of diesel cars in an effort to protect people's health. If it succeeds, the rest of the UK could do the same
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Humans turn out to have the strongest sense of rhythm of all animals, says a new book, which makes strong evolutionary connections between music and language
Wed Apr 03, 2019 21:00
In Mama's Last Hug, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that we can no longer deny that animals have feelings and we need to look closely at their inner lives
Wed Apr 03, 2019 21:00
5G is helping doctors in China conduct surgery from hundreds of kilometres away, such as directing cardiac operation and performing brain stimulation
Fri Apr 05, 2019 20:55
Real-time ray tracing is creating impressively realistic video game graphics. It uses powerful chips to calculate how millions of light rays reflect in a scene
Fri Apr 05, 2019 15:24
Real-time ray tracing is creating impressively realistic video game graphics. It uses powerful chips to calculate how millions of light rays reflect in a scene
Fri Apr 05, 2019 15:18
Media misinterpretations of the hygiene hypothesis are encouraging us to stop washing our hands - and it's undermining our public health, says Sally Bloomfield
Fri Apr 05, 2019 14:09
The idea that free will doesn't exist is based on misguided intuitions of what it means to be a biological machine, as a famous insect, the digger wasp, reveals
Wed Apr 03, 2019 21:00
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has shot an explosive projectile at the asteroid Ryugu to release dust and collect a sample
Fri Apr 05, 2019 13:06
AI firm DeepMind taught an AI to take a maths exam designed for 16-year-olds in the UK, but it only managed to get an E grade
Thu Apr 04, 2019 17:27
A group of troubling disorders lead to very real symptoms, but tests suggest nothing is wrong. Finding out why is shedding new light on the nature of consciousness itself
Wed Apr 03, 2019 15:00
The Arctic seas could become ice-free 20 years earlier than expected thanks to snowflakes that trap heat to warm the surface beneath them
Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:00
A piece of a planet that survived the death of its star has been spotted orbiting the stellar corpse. Planets in our solar system may look similar when the sun dies
Thu Apr 04, 2019 22:00
The routine vaccination of schoolgirls with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Scotland has led to a dramatic reduction in cervical cancer in later life.
Thu Apr 04, 2019 20:06
The veteran naturalist lays the blame for Earth's increasingly fragile ecosystem on humans, yet the stunning visuals in Netflix's Our Planet add little to the genre
Thu Apr 04, 2019 18:58
A fossil discovered in Peru shows that early whales managed to spread around the world while they were still capable of walking on land
Thu Apr 04, 2019 18:40
Some genetic test results that seemed life-threatening now look less risky. We need to rethink what patients get told, say Rachel Horton and Anneke Lucassen
Thu Apr 04, 2019 19:00
AI firm DeepMind taught an AI to take a maths exam designed for 16-year-olds in the UK, but it only managed to get an E grade
Thu Apr 04, 2019 17:27
Cats can recognise their own names, even when said by a stranger, according to a study of the pets in cat cafes and people's homes
Thu Apr 04, 2019 17:00
For 30 years, one man has been obsessed with the whisperings of the aurora borealis. His search for its origins may finally be over
Wed Apr 03, 2019 21:00
A group of troubling disorders cause very real symptoms, but have no discernible physical cause. Finding out why is revealing how we can all unlock the power of mind over matter
Wed Apr 03, 2019 15:00
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