Neuroscience
For the first time, researchers record long-term electrical activity in a single brain cell
When a person experiences a happy or sad mood, which brain cells are active?
Feb 22, 2023
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Neuroscience
The brain's ability to perceive space expands like the universe
Young children sometimes believe that the moon is following them, or that they can reach out and touch it. It appears to be much closer than is proportional to its true distance. As we move about our daily lives, we tend ...
Jan 5, 2023
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Neuroscience
Study shows that memories pass through many transformation stages as they are encoded
Memory, the human ability to recall things that happened in the past, is one of the topics most widely investigated by neuroscientists and psychologists. Past studies have collected extensive evidence suggesting that memory ...
Neuroscience
Using deep learning to research material transport in the brain
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, controlling everything from senses to behaviors. Like any part of the body, it is subject to various errors that affect cognitive and physical functions, some of which ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Has lockdown driven tinnitus sufferers to despair?
This gap in research knowledge has proved enticing for enterprising young scientist Dr. Dee Domingo, who recently joined Flinders University's fledgling Audiology Department to commence bold new research ideas and analysis ...
Feb 22, 2021
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Neuroscience
Past memory cues help people juggle numerous pieces of information
Many everyday tasks require people to represent and combine information from multiple sources. For example, when a person checks the rearview mirror while driving it is important that they maintain information about how far ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Neuroscience
Come to think of it or not: Study shows how memories can be intentionally forgotten
Context plays a big role in our memories, both good and bad. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" on the car radio, for example, may remind you of your first love—or your first speeding ticket. But a Dartmouth- and Princeton-led ...
May 5, 2016
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Scientists gain first glimpse of new concepts developing in the brain
Thanks to Carnegie Mellon University advances in brain imaging technology, we now know how specific concrete objects are coded in the brain, to the point where we can identify which object, such as a house or a banana, someone ...
Jun 9, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain response to a 'lost' first language
An infant's mother tongue creates neural patterns that the unconscious brain retains years later even if the child totally stops using the language, (as can happen in cases of international adoption) according to a new joint ...
Nov 17, 2014
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Neuroscience
Researchers use rhythmic brain activity to track memories in progress
University of Oregon researchers have tapped the rhythm of memories as they occur in near real time in the human brain.
Jun 5, 2014
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