The "Blue Brain" project is underway to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain!

Meanwhile, scientists report that dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor.

In the lab, seven capuchin monkeys have been taught to use money. And in another monkey study, rhesus monkeys were found to match the number of voices they heard to the number of faces they expected to see.

People interested in participating in a cognitive neuroscience experiment might like to head over to an interactive website set up to get you to play a decision game, describe yourself on a survey, and perform a visual perception task. You need to be at least 21.

And here's an interesting study involving a substance more usually known for its aid in inducing labour in pregnant women and assisting breastfeeding in mothers - oxytocin. It appears that this substance, received nasally, makes people more inclined to be trusting. The substance - a neuropeptide - apparently has already been found to be vital in social attachment and affiliation in other mammals.