HAND, FOOT, MOUTH, BALLS ⏱09:40
how the visual brain processes hands & cutlery, the worst study ever, mirror neurons, alcohol, zombies & the amazing jane goodall
episode #11, 4th June 2021 
#hand #tool #football #mouth #booze #zombie image source
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our main brain stories this episode...
HAND BRAIN HANDLES TOOLS
the part of the brain dealing with images of hands also processes how to grab cutlery & the differences between grabbing cutlery & rods. hands & tools inter-digitate in the visual brain [read more...]
this story was in episode #11. original article: Knights et al., 2021 (Journal of Neuroscience), reported in: Twitter by James Rosen-Birch on 13th May 2021 image source #hand #tool #FMRI #visual #grasp #decode
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SCIENCE TAKES A DIVE
likely the worst brain imaging study ever published, researchers interested in football penalty-taking behaviour discarded 86% of their data, did 165 statistical tests, then mis-interpreted the results. in ten thousand words [read more...]
this story was in episode #11. original article: Slutter et al., 2021 (Frontiers in Computer Science), reported in: The Daily Mail by Joe Pinkstone on 7th May 2021 #penalty #choke #football #FNIRS #QRP
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MIRROR PHONE NEURONS FOR MISOPHONIA?
mirror neurons - brain cells involved in sensation & movement - have been implicated in two new studies, of phone-related-imitation & sound-related-irritation [read more...]
this story was in episode #11. original articles: Maglieri et al., 2021 (Journal of Ethology), Kumar et al., 2021 (Journal of Neuroscience), reported in: The New Scientist by Christa Leste-Lasserre on 23rd April 2021 & The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 3rd May 2021 & The Guardian by Ian Sample on 24th May 2021 & The Daily Mail by Stacy Liberatore on 24th May 2021 #mirror #smartphone #misophonia #FMRI
A LITTLE ALCOHOL IS BAD AND GOOD FOR YOU
two preliminary reports excited the media into an alcoholic froth by claiming that even a small amount of alcohol is both good & bad for you. cheers! [read more...]
this story was in episode #11. original article: Topiwala et al., 2021 (medRxiv), reported in: The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 19th May 2021 & The Independent by Vishwam Sankaran on 19th May 2021 & The Guardian by Natalie Grover on 18th May 2021 & The Daily Mail by Johnathan Chadwick on 3rd May 2021 & You Tube by Kene Mezue on 7th May 2021 #alcohol #good #bad #health #brain #heart
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ARE THE ZOMBIES COMING?
the ever-perplexing express created a story about zombies caused by brain-invading organisms being on the verge of existence. they're not, they don't, they won't. ignore [read more...]
this story was in episode #11. #zombie #toxoplasma #mouse #cat #urine
GOODALL WINS PRIZE FOR PRIMATOLOGY
jane goodall, the astonishingly accomplished primatologist, receives the $1.5m templeton prize for her life's work on animal intelligence & humanity [read more...]
this story was in episode #11. reported in: The Guardian by Harriet Sherwood on 20th May 2021 image source #JaneGoodall #primatology #hope #templeton