Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an emerging research tool called transcranial focused ...
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Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work ...
Dec 16, 2025
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What if we could peer into the brain and watch how it organizes information as we act, perceive, or make decisions? A new study has introduced a method that does exactly this—not just by looking at fine-grained neuronal spiking ...
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If watching Robert De Niro ordering hammer-based retribution on a cheat's hand in "Casino" instinctively made you wince, you are not alone. Many people say that seeing bodily injury on film makes them flinch, as if they "feel" ...
Nov 26, 2025
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Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical Neuroengineering Lab at Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), are developing visual prostheses based on brain ...
Nov 6, 2025
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A global consortium of scientists has created the first and most detailed "developmental maps" of the mammalian brain (from mouse to human) to date, taking the first critical steps in unraveling the mystery of early brain ...
Nov 5, 2025
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A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when you see illusory—or false—colors after staring at real colors for a longer time. Through this, the ...
Nov 4, 2025
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When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That's "face pareidolia" and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces in patterns that aren't ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Trying to document how single brain cells participate in networks that govern behavior is a daunting task. Brain probes called Neuropixels, which feature high-density silicon arrays, have enabled scientists to collect electrophysiological ...
Oct 3, 2025
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Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out how they contribute to brain functions. A novel study by MIT researchers at The Picower Institute ...
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