This review focuses on saccade research with adult psychiatric patients. It begins with an introduction of the various types of saccades and the tasks used to evoke them. The functional significance of the different types of eye movements is briefly discussed. Research findings regarding the saccadic performance of different adult psychiatric…

Neuroscience and cognitive science relating to education are hot topics. They receive extensive but simplified coverage in the mass media, and there is a booming business in "brain-booster" books and products, which claim to be based on the research. Eric Jensen advocates more collaboration among scientists from the full variety of disciplines…

Eighty college students mentally rotated 3-D shapes while maintaining a concurrent verbal or spatial memory load to investigate how sex, native language, and college major relate to the cognitive strategies employed during mental rotation (MR). Males were significantly better than females at MR, whereas native language was not related to MR…

Researchers are turning brain injuries to advantage, using them as probes and indicators in studies on how the mind functions--and malfunctions. (Editor)

Article introduced research on the human brain with a review of the actual history of the brain as an organ of the body. (Author/RK)

Author outlined the characteristics of the right hemisphere of the brain and compared them to those of the left hemisphere. (RK)

Paper examines the underlying mechanisms of three neural network models in an attempt to simplify the diverse details involved in specific neural modelling and simulation. (Author)

Theories explaining the mechanisms of adaptive behavior, pattern recognition, conditioned reflexes and other complex forms of learning and language are presented. (Author/HB)

A report on the simplification of these concepts of "neuron gas" or "netlet" to neural net models. (Author)

This paper presents a temporal sequence memory based on the circuit configuration of the dentate gyrus of the mammalian hippocampus. (Author)

Results suggest that severe muscular fatigue adversely affects total reflex time, especially the peripheral muscular component. (MM)

The study examined brain functions related to information processing in autistic adults using auditory evoked potentials (AEP) and missing stimulus potentials (MSP). Both nonautistic and autistic adults showed normal mature patterns and lateralities in AEP for music stimuli, but nonautistic children did not. Autistic adults showed matured patterns…

Cognitive neuroscience assumes that measurement of brain electrical activity should relate to cognition. Brain Electrical Activity Mapping (BEAM), a non-invasive technique, is used to record changes in activity from one brain area to another and is 80 to 90 percent successful in classifying subjects as dyslexic or normal. (MT)