Tidsskriftet, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, published an article two years ago (on September 25, 2023) with the headline “Statistics lessons from a salmon“. That article is about the project that was honored with the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Neuroscience, “for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, […]
Eleanor Maguire died on January 4, 2025. Here is the beginning of her obituary, written by Calli McMurray, in The Transmitter: Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory. By Calli McMurray 10 January 2025 One […]
A technically roundabout look at the bits and bobs that altogether are a lamb brain — that was the goal of a team of researchers in Spain, the UK, and China. You can see what they say they saw by reading their study: “PoLambRimetry: a multispectral polarimetric atlas of lamb brain,” Verónica Mieites Alonso, Giulio […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Lipstick in the brain — Lipstick interacts with the human brain mostly in indirect ways. Kazue Hirabayashi and colleagues have been modernising the search for some of those interactions. Their stated goal is to find “a […]
