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While the NYU study tested memory and simple recognition, other recent research looking at activity in the brain at rest and the learning of complex visual tasks has yielded similar results. Neurologist Maurizio Corbetta of Washington University in St. Louis recruited 14 people to use their peripheral vision to identify a hidden pattern - an inverted T - that was flashed briefly on a screen inside an fMRI machine. After each daily training session, lasting one to two hours for about a week, participants were given an hour's rest, during which time Corbetta scanned their brains. (Read "The fMRI Brain Scan...
...reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, Corbetta's team found that spontaneous brain activity in two separate regions of the cerebral cortex appeared to be correlated after the participants had learned the visual task, but were not linked beforehand. The brain activity in those who were best at finding the hidden pattern onscreen was most strongly related. "Our test was like a video game. What this research shows is that we have a very dynamic landscape of ongoing activity [in the brain] even when we are at rest," notes Corbetta...
...year the government reduced the penalties for false accounting, an offense for which Berlusconi was indicted in 1999. Also, to avoid bribery charges, he pushed through a law giving top government office holders immunity from prosecution, though last week Italy's high court deemed this move unconstitutional. Notes Guido Corbetta, a business professor at Milan's Bocconi University: "You can always improve the laws, but what's important is changing the culture." --By Peter Gumbel and Jeff Israely...
...companies where we can't understand what's going on," vows a top credit officer at one big Italian bank. But small and mid-sized firms will be hit too. "For family firms that need more capital to grow, this will be an important problem," worries Guido Corbetta, a professor at Bocconi University in Milan. Prosecutors probing the now-bankrupt Parmalat are increasingly focusing on the roles Italian and U.S. banks may have played in the affair. One potential winner: the Italian stock market. Family businesses have traditionally shunned it, but Corbetta believes firms with ambitious growth plans...
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