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After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a study published February 11 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology led by Ghattas Bisharat, ...
Feb 11, 2025
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The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage and decision-making.
Feb 10, 2025
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For over 100 years, psychologists have known that most people prefer curviness over angularity in practically everything—from lines and shapes to faces, paintings and interior spaces. Moreover, the phenomenon has been observed ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Imagine you're at a dinner party, but you can't smell the food cooking or hear the dinner bell. Sounds like a dream, right? What if it wasn't? "When we experience the world and interact with people, we use all our senses," ...
Jan 6, 2025
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A team of New York University linguistics and psychology researchers has discovered that when a brief sentence is flashed, our brains detect its basic linguistic structure extremely quickly—in roughly 150 milliseconds, or ...
Oct 23, 2024
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Just as a musician can train to more sharply distinguish subtle differences in pitch, mammals can improve their ability to interpret hearing, vision, and other senses with practice. This process, which is called perceptual ...
Oct 9, 2024
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Lip-read words can be decoded from the brain's auditory regions similarly to heard speech, according to a new University of Michigan report that looked at how vision supports verbal perception.
Aug 16, 2024
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Have you ever noticed how you can suddenly hear your refrigerator humming in the background when you focus on it? Or how the sound of your name instantly catches your attention even in a noisy crowd?
Jul 11, 2024
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Ever heard just a snippet of a song and instantly known what comes next? Or picked up the rhythm of a chorus after just a few notes? New research from the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University and the Centre ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Do our brains process natural voices and deepfake voices differently? Research conducted at the University of Zurich indicates that this is the case. In a new study, researchers have identified two brain regions that respond ...
Jun 12, 2024
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