From dawn of time to dusk—our evolutionary ability to perceive time in art
Scientists have shown that people are able to tell apart morning from evening depictions in paintings using simple and subtle color clues in the image.
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Scientists have shown that people are able to tell apart morning from evening depictions in paintings using simple and subtle color clues in the image.
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Within our brain cells, there exists a highway system of tube-like structures called microtubules. They give the cell structure and help transport nutrients and other important substances from one part of the nerve cells ...
Jan 16, 2024
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A mouse study designed to shed light on memory loss in people who experience repeated head impacts, such as athletes, suggests the condition could potentially be reversed. The research in mice finds that amnesia and poor ...
Jan 16, 2024
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Hop in the car to meet your lover for dinner and a flood of dopamine— the same hormone underlying cravings for sugar, nicotine and cocaine—likely infuses your brain's reward center, motivating you to brave the traffic ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Restricting calories is known to improve health and increase lifespan, but much of how it does so remains a mystery, especially in regard to how it protects the brain. Buck Institute for Research on Aging scientists have ...
Jan 11, 2024
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For centuries, a prevailing theory in philosophy has asserted that at birth the human mind is a blank slate. More recently, the same notion has also held sway in the field of neurobiology, where it is commonly held that neural ...
Jan 9, 2024
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A multi-institutional team of brain researchers has discovered some of the ways that the human brain has evolved to allow for better cognitive processing by comparing certain nerve cells from the brains of mice and humans. ...
With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain's key language processing centers.
Jan 3, 2024
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Human beings have always been fascinated by the brain.
Dec 26, 2023
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There's no shortage of apps and technology that claim to shift the brain into a "theta" state—said to help with relaxation, inward focus and sleep.
Dec 25, 2023
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