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By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University researchers are shedding light on the holy grail of neuroscience: the mechanics of how we learn.
Mar 19, 2025
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Sounds you consciously perceive affect your brain differently than sounds you don't, a recent Yale study found.
Mar 12, 2025
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You've probably heard the phrase, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it," and now, science backs it up. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern University's School of Communication, the University of Pittsburgh ...
Mar 3, 2025
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Researchers at University of Tsukuba have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes, such as the ever-changing neuronal ...
Feb 19, 2025
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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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