Scintists Discover "Intelligence" Genes That Code For Cognitive Ability

Cognitive ability, such as decision-making skills, varies wildly from person to person, and although it is acknowledged that both genes and the environment play a role in this variation, linking specific genes to healthy cognitive abilities has proven incredibly difficult. However, a new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reveals that a genetic network within part of the brain may indeed be the genes researchers have been looking for.

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Crisscross

This is a number crossword puzzle. Enter one numeral character into each square. The clue consists of mathematical operations (e. g. "D.6 x 3" means, that the number you are looking for is three times bigger than number D.6).



Across:
A.1 = D.6 x 3
A.4 = A.7 x A.7
A.5 = (D.3 x 7) - 1
A.6 = A.1 + A.5
A.7 = D.3

Down:
D.1 = ?
D.2 = A.7 x 6
D.3 = D.6 + 6
D.4 = A.4 - 210
D.6 = (D.2 + 9) x 1/7

Scientists shed new light on how the brain detects motion

If you’ve managed to avoid getting hit by a bus today, you should thank your brain, which is designed to detect motion in order to help us safely navigate the world around us. This ability is so vital for our survival as a species that we’ve even developed the capacity to detect “implied motion,” such as movement that is suggested in still photographs. Yet while most of us take this for granted, scientists have long struggled to understand the neural pathways that control this essential function.
Publishing their findings in the journal NeuroImage, a team of researchers from Dartmouth College have now shed new light on how the brain interprets motion, indicating that the two pathways involved in this process may be more integrated than previously thought. Additionally, their results suggest that motion is processed differently depending on whether the moving object is animate or inanimate.

Hallucinations may actually be caused by folds in the brain

Imagine hearing a voice that screams, “You’re no good at this and you’re going to fail every exam” but not knowing where it came from. Or suddenly seeing a poisonous snake slithering towards you. Even if you’ve never had a hallucination – a sensory event that is experienced as real, despite having no material world cause – it’s easy to imagine how frightening they can be.
Despite advances in brain imaging technology, we still have a limited understanding of the biological processes behind hallucinations. But new research has discovered that a key region of the brain, the paracingulate sulcus, may underlie the experience. This delivers a glimmer of insight into why some people are more likely to hallucinate and provides a neural target for treatments that aim to tackle such terrifying experiences.
When someone has a hallucination, the basic problem is that they fail to distinguish between real events and those created by the imagination. As a result, hallucinations have been described as an impairment in “reality 
monitoring”.

Have you heard of this new optical illusion ?

sight confusing optical illusion

This optical illusion will blow your mind. I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there's an optical illusion going around that can make you see black and white as green and red for up to three months… yes, three months.
A video called ‘Things You Might Not Know’ was uploaded on Tom Scott’s YouTube channel and it’s going viral, because just wow.

Apparently if you stare at the picture long enough it can affect the way you see certain colours, such as seeing black and white as green and red.
No one actually understands how the trick works, but we recommended that you DO NOT do it longer than 15 minutes.

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Practising music improves the symmetry of the brain.

If you think music is good for you then a little practice is even better. Get to learn the effect that a couple of hours of practice a day have on your brain by reading the lines below.

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5 Logic problems to put your brain in work.

Below are listed several problems that need some logic to be solved.

1. MILK JUGS

A milkman has two empty jugs: a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug.

How van he measure exactly one gallon without wasting any milk?

2.SOCKS AND SHOES

You are in the dark and in the floor there are six shoes of three colors, and a heap of twenty four socks, black and brown. How many socks and shoes must you take into the light to be certain that you have a matching pair of socks and a matching pair of shoes?

3.TWIN BROTHERS

Suppose there are twin brothers; one which always tells the truth and one which always lies.

What single yes/no question could you ask to either brother to figure out which is which?

4.CUT THE CAKE

How is it possible to cut a traditional circular cake into 8 equal size pieces, with only 3 cuts?

5.FOUR DIGIT NUMBER

What is the four digit number in which the first digit is one third the second, the third is the sum of the first and the second, and the last is three times the second.

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Can you find the answers to these 12 riddles?

1. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
2. What has 4 fingers and a thumb but is not living?
3. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
4. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies.
    We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?
5. Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?
6. What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive and run when it's dead?
7. What gets wet when drying?
8. I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay, you move towards me, yet distant I'll stay.
9. I am a mother and a father, but have never given birth. I'm rarely still but I never wander.What am I?
10. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can't go outside.What am I?
11. I can only live when there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
12. Every night I am told what to do, and each morning I do what I am told. But still I don't escape your scold.


Source: www.dose.com

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The impact of smartphone thumbing on your brain

Almost like a new drug, our addiction to using our smartphones is having a profound effect on our brains. Whether we’re texting, posting on Facebook, or playing Angry Birds, the way we’re repetitively using our fingers and thumbs on the smooth surface of a touch screen is causing certain areas of our brains to become bigger. In other words, we’re experiencing heightened brain activity that rewires sensory processing when our fingertips and thumbs are touched, a phenomenon known as “brain plasticity” in which the brain adapts to learning new things.