Tag: Brain-imaging

Harvard and Google researchers have teamed up to create an incredibly detailed 3D map of a small fragment of an adult human brain. The project began a decade ago when Dr. Jeff Lichtman, a biology professor at Harvard, received a brain sample just 1 cubic millimeter in size. Despite its small size, the sample contained […]

WASHINGTON: A research team at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute has observed in brain-imaging for the first time what happens in the human brain when we feel curiousity. In their study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists discovered specific brain areas that evaluate uncertainty in visually confusing situations, which triggers feelings of curiosity. “Curiosity has deep […]