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The Brain

In the News . . .

• Humans Still Evolving as Our Brains Shrink -- LiveScience (13 November 2009)
  
  
• Did an Ice Age Boost Human Brain Size? -- New Scientist (29 July 2009)
  
  
• Why Are Human Brains So Big? -- LiveScience (13 July 2009)
  
  
• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain -- ScienceDaily (23 June 2009)
  
  
• Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited -- Mark Wheeler, EurekaAlert!, AAAS (17 March 2009)
  
  
• Caltech neuroscientists map intelligence in the brain -- Kathy Svitil, EurekaAlert!, AAAS (11 March 2009)
  
  
• Researchers capture wave of brain activity linked to anticipation -- Karen Mallet, EurekaAlert!, AAAS (25 February 2009)
  
  
• Why We Have Difficulty Recognizing Faces In Photo Negatives -- ScienceDaily (18 March 2009)

From Anthroplogy in the News, Texas A&M

• Scientists Watch As Listener's Brain Predicts Speaker's Words ScienceDaily (9/15/08)
  
  
• Men's Brains Are 'Better Connected' Telegraph (9/9/08)
• Brains Wired Differently in Men vs. Women LiveScience (9/8/08)

• Study Sheds Light on Parental Instinct -- Reuters (2/26/08)
  
  
  • Adult Brains Wired to Go Ga-Ga Over Babies -- Discovery News (2/27/08)

  

• Babies Faces 'Make Us Want to Care for Them' -- Telegraph (2/27/08)
  
  
• A Specific and Rapid Neural Signature for Parental Instinct -- PLoS ONE (2/27/08)

• Political bias affects brain activity,
  study finds Democrats and Republicans both adept at ignoring facts, brain scans show (24 January 2006) -- MSNBC
  
  
  • The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC
    
    
  • How the Human Brain Works -- Hellen Phillips and Cathy Tollet
    
    
  • Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour -- Alzheimer's Association
    
    
  • Brain Has "Face Place" for Recognition, Monkey Study Confirms -- National Geographic