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Limiting global warming now can preserve valuable freshwater resource
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A research team has found that the Andean region of Chile could face noticeable snow loss and roughly 10% less mountain water runoff with a global warming of approximately 2.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels over the next three decades. The study also shows that what happen
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Research finds how single brain hemisphere can support words, face recogni
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
During recent brain plasticity and visual perception research, it was found that individuals who had had surgery as children to remove half of their brains correctly detected differences between words or faces more than 80 per cent of the time.
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Alzheimer's degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers:
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): New research reveals cells that span brain hemispheres to coordinate activity in visual processing centres and shows that Alzheimer's degrades their structure and therefore their function.
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Study focuses on a malformation that illustrates incredible plasticity of
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 3 (ANI): One in 4,000 people is born without a corpus callosum, a brain structure consisting of neural fibres that are used to transfer information from one hemisphere to the other. A quarter of these individuals do not have any symptoms, while the remainder either
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Unlike adults, children use both brain hemispheres to understand language
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): To understand language (more specifically, processing spoken sentences), children use both the brain's hemispheres, right and left -- quite different from what adults do. The new finding suggests a possible reason why children appear to recover from neural
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Scientists show how brain differentiates lyrics from music
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 28 (ANI): The perception of speech and music - two of the most uniquely human uses of sound - is enabled by specialized neural systems in different brain hemispheres adapted to respond differently to specific features in the acoustic structure of the song, a new st
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Autistic people have symmetrical brain hemispheres: Study
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 31 (ANI): While it is known that the human brain is divided into two hemispheres, what is not known is that despite the two develop differently, symmetry is found in the brain of autistic people.
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