In a nutshell Scientists discovered that the brain cells (POMC neurons) responsible for making us feel full are ...

Since then, however, the significance of human mirror neurons (and ... Some mirror neurons appear to only respond to one action, or to a limited range; others respond to a wider variety of actions.

A complete perception system built by designing other organic materials and integrating their engineered neurons with artificial touch receptors and synapses. Artificially engineered biological ...

The essence of this 'mirror' mechanism is as follows: whenever individuals observe an action being done by someone else, a set of neurons that ... is Professor of Human Physiology and chairs ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

With the human brain's immense network of 86 billion neurons poised to fire, sensing systems remain difficult to recreate. Scientists are limited by both the footprint of the design and by the ...

Parrots are already known for their mimicry of transitive actions, such as grabbing an object. Because they are highly social ...

Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory ...

Its pathological hallmark is the abnormal aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) into insoluble fibrils and Lewy bodies, leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the ...