Neuroscience
To appreciate music, the human brain listens and learns to predict
Music has been central to human cultures for tens of thousands of years, but how our brains perceive it has long been shrouded in mystery.
Feb 19, 2024
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News tagged with cerebral cortex
Neuroscience
Ballet dancers' brains adapt to stop them getting in a spin
Scientists have discovered differences in the brain structure of ballet dancers that may help them avoid feeling dizzy when they perform pirouettes.
Sep 26, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Viewing your own face, even subconsciously, is rewarding
As humans, we each have a powerful ability to easily recognize our own face. But now, researchers from Japan have uncovered new information about how our cognitive systems enable us to distinguish our own face from those ...
Apr 19, 2021
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Neuroscience
Memory in silent neurons
When we learn, we associate a sensory experience either with other stimuli or with a certain type of behavior. The neurons in the cerebral cortex that transmit the information modify the synaptic connections that they have ...
Aug 31, 2014
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Why are some people immune to age-related cognitive decline?
Emily Rogalski, '07 PhD, is part of a team of scientists taking a glass half-full approach to studying cognitive aging. Instead of focusing on factors that can lead to dementia and neurodegenerative disease as people grow ...
Dec 12, 2016
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Genetics
Mutations in single gene may have shaped human cerebral cortex
The size and shape of the human cerebral cortex, an evolutionary marvel responsible for everything from Shakespeare's poetry to the atomic bomb, are largely influenced by mutations in a single gene, according to a team of ...
Apr 28, 2011
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Neuroscience
Neuroscience researchers identify a gene critical for human brain development and unravel how it works
Compared to other mammals, humans have the largest cerebral cortex. A sheet of brain cells that folds in on itself multiple times in order to fit inside the skull, the cortex is the seat of higher functions. It is what enables ...
Jun 2, 2016
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Medical research
New molecular barcoding tool shows excitatory and inhibitory neurons have common progenitors
A team of researchers at the University of California at San Francisco has developed a new molecular barcoding tool to study cell-type output of radial glia subtypes. In their paper published in the journal Nature, they describe ...
Genetics
Scientists develop method to reveal the cell types most affected by genetic variation
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found types of cells in the brain that are most susceptible to inherited genetic variants linked to schizophrenia. As a result, their work reveals a shortlist of the variants that ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Neuroscience
Approaching the perception of touch in the brain
More than ten percent of the cerebral cortex is involved in processing information about our sense of touch—a larger area than previously thought. This is the result of a joint study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...
Nov 25, 2019
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