Results of a recent study on sensory abilities may have positive impact on the way supports are provided to autistic children and help increase their quality of life. Western University psychology professor, Ryan Stevenson and Western BrainsCAN postdoct …
We can do many things with our hands – carry loads, manipulate fine objects, grasp items, even communicate with each other. Our hands, Jörn Diedrichsen says, are “the Swiss Army knife of our body parts.” As the Western Research Chair for Motor Control and...
Companies that create brain games often make wild claims about their cognitive benefit, warns a Western neuroscientist.
University planners hope a new campus facility will provide researchers across varied disciplines an environment conducive to confronting the biggest questions facing society.
Think of a city road map. All the places you could possibly want to go – your home, your office, maybe the local coffee shop – are connected by roads. If you take the same road every time from, say, your home to the office, your actions would be in line with how...
Medical Biophysics professor Dr. Robert Bartha of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry has been awarded the Alzheimer Foundation London and Middlesex Premier Research Grant, a $100,000 grant (over two years) to support research, personnel and supportive...
Don’t nod off on this one. A Western neuroscientist is exploring the possibility sleep isn’t so much about rest from a busy day as it is about memory consolidation – or, more simply, the process needed to form lasting memories.
Football is a rough game that takes a visible toll on the body. Now, researchers say that toll could have a serious mental impact as well.
A project spearheaded by Western researchers Adrian Owen and Melvyn Goodale has been named among seven shortlisted teams to proceed to Stage 2 of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Global Call for Ideas.
Western researchers have furthered their game-changing neuroimaging techniques in communicating with patients believed to be in a vegetative state by connecting with an individual that has proved otherwise unresponsive for the past 12 years.
A team of researchers, fuelled predominantly by Western’s Brain and Mind Institute, won top prize in the Hackathon at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping last week in Washington.
Western researchers have used neuroimaging to read human thought via brain activity when they are conveying specific ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers.
Western professors Paul Beamish and Adrian Owen have been named winners of the 2013 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research.