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Attention enhances initial brain responses to sights and sounds 3-October-2008
Each moment that we are awake, our senses are bombarded with stimuli. Focusing our attention on the few stimuli that are important allows us to filter out the ones irrelevant to the task at hand. RIKEN researchers have found that attention does in fact modulate primary cortical responses to both auditory and visual stimuli. Read more of the article entitled 'Attention enhances initial brain responses to sights and sounds' Contact: Saeko Okada Institution: RIKENFocus on phosphate 3-October-2008
Japanese researchers provide the first large-scale identification of protein control sites from the model plant Arabidopsis Read more of the article entitled 'Focus on phosphate' Contact: Saeko Okada Institution: RIKEN HIV on the march in China 1-October-2008
Summaries of newsworthy papers include Biopsy sample sheds light on HIV-1 evolution, Magnetic imaging and sensing using diamond spins, The glaciation threshold, An earlier dawn for microRNAs, Measuring the magnetic field of a distant galaxy, Knock-out blow for Chlamydia and Evolution in action Read more of the article entitled ' HIV on the march in China' Contact: Ruth Institution: Nature Publishing GroupTrieste Science Prize Winners 2008 29-September-2008
Beatriz Barbuy, a Brazilian astrophysicist who has made a major contribution to the study of the evolution of the chemical composition of stars, and Roddam Narasimha, an Indian engineer and physicist whose work in fluid dynamics has increased understanding of turbulence, have been awarded the 2008 Trieste Science Prize. Read more of the article entitled 'Trieste Science Prize Winners 2008' Contact: Peter McGrath Institution: TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing worldRisk factor for narcolepsy 28-September-2008
Summaries of newsworthy papers include Thwarting tumour invasion, Glacier acceleration through subsurface ocean warming, Complement enhances tumour evasion, Groundwater levels determine land response to climate and A century of artificial nitrogen fertiliser Read more of the article entitled 'Risk factor for narcolepsy' Contact: Ruth Institution: Nature Publishing Group |
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