How do we learn to speak during childhood or how do we acquire knowledge about the world around us? Toddlers' social interactions in their social and family environment and in schools help to explain this, but they are not ...
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When we use our working memory, we temporarily retain information in our brain. For instance, you are able to comprehend this sentence because you are briefly storing in working memory each of the words you are reading until ...
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In animals, movements such as locomotion or grooming are known to influence neuronal activity within the cerebral cortex. Moreover, recent studies also suggest that these changes in neuronal activity are not confined to a ...
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A team of psychologists at the University of London, has found that people typically greatly underestimate how much their hands weigh. Their study has been published in Current Biology.
The opioid crisis continues to pose a grave public health concern, with synthetic opioids such as fentanyl posing a major risk for development of addiction and death due to overdose. A recent study by the research group led ...
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An often-overlooked communication strategy for neurons might be more prevalent than previously believed.
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Have you ever made a great catch—like saving a phone from dropping into a toilet or catching an indoor cat from running outside? Those skills—the ability to grab a moving object—takes precise interactions within and ...
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Puberty often begins early for children who are obese. While there is nothing new about this fact, a scientific explanation has been elusive. Now, a team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen offers what may be a ...
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Young babies make many squeals, vowel-like sounds, growls and short, word-like sounds such as "ba" or "aga." Those precursors to speech, or protophones, are later replaced with early words and, eventually, whole phrases and ...
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An orchestra of complex neuronal networks performs a symphonic masterpiece called vision—an exciting field for neurobiologists like Alexander Borst, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence. In his ...
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