Anthropology News

Sep 10, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing emotional reactions, respond preferentially to images of animals. Their findings are described in a paper published online in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The collaborative research team was responsible for recruiting 41 epilepsy patients at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. These patients...

Sep 5, 2011 by News Staff

Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of words related to the concepts a person is thinking about....

Aug 30, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language.  Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...

Aug 24, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...

Aug 23, 2011 by James Freeman

Harvard researchers have found that practice of processing food through cooking was likely invented by human’s early ancestors more than 1.9 million...

Aug 16, 2011 by James Freeman

In a new study co-authored by University of Florida scientists, researchers recovered and analyzed the oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern...