The Scientist November 2018

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 19 neuroscientist Mark D’Esposito and his colleagues are using TMS with a different, much shorter protoc ...

NOTEBOOK and printed words, which are normally processed by regions within these parts of the brain. This uncertainty stemmed fr ...

CREDIT LINECREDIT LINE Behrmann says, he had to move his eyes or head to bring an object into his right visual field, where it w ...

22 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com NOTEBOOK Behrmann and colleagues have explored before. “This is consistent with the idea th ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 23 CREDIT LINECREDIT LINE will develop,’” she says. “It’s rather that language is a communication proces ...

24 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com Caught on Camera Selected Images of the Day fromthe-scientist.com FREEZE FRAME REVIVAL The ...

Snapshot: Z. Zheng et al., Cell, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.019, 2018. Visualization by Philipp Schlegel (Drosophila connectomic ...

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11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 27 MODUS OPERANDI © GEORGE RETSECK AT A GLANCE T he eye presents a paradox to experimental neuroscientis ...

28 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com © DUNG HOANG I n 1987, political scientist James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Ze ...

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30 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com intelligence researchers, categorization isn’t the end goal. “The reason I’m interested in ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 31 THE SCIENTIST STAFF PARSING SMARTNESS The biological basis for variations in human intelligence is no ...

32 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com of Siena in Italy also argue that intelligence is a property of the whole brain, but they s ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 33 els see it as an average or summation of cognitive abilities, not a cause. Last year, University of C ...

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11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 35 As researchers unravel the molecular machinery that links exercise and cognition, working out is emer ...

36 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com © ISTOCK.COM, GRIVINA F or an hour a da y, five days a week, mice in Hiro- shi Maejima’s ph ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 37 mice that ran: they had double the number of new neurons as mice in the maze or water.^2 In a follow- ...

38 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com EXERCISE’S EFFECTS Physical activity increases the volume of the brain’s hippocampus and im ...