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
New findings on neuronal activities in the sensorimotor cortex
An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Freiburg has found important clues about the functioning of the sensorimotor cortex. The new findings on neuronal activities in this brain area could be helpful for ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Neuroscience
Rats can learn to navigate by watching their friends, helping us learn more about our own 'internal GPS'
Researchers are one step closer to understanding the "internal GPS" of animals and humans, by investigating whether rats can learn spaces just by observation. In a new study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, ...
Jul 13, 2022
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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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Neuroscience
From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects
To recognize a chair or a dog, our brain separates objects into their individual properties and then puts them back together. Until recently, it has remained unclear what these properties are. Scientists at the Max Planck ...
Oct 19, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers find abstract art evokes a more abstract mindset than representational art
A team of researchers at Columbia University has found that abstract art tends to evoke a more abstract mindset than does representational art. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Forty percent of people have a fictional first memory, says study
Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first memory which is fictional.
Jul 17, 2018
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Memory researchers link two brain regions to conceptual organization
If your idea of a perfect dog is an abstract rendering of canine qualities extracted across many encounters in your life, you are not alone in how your brain connects memories, say University of Oregon scientists.
Mar 29, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How to make a good impression when saying hello
You can hear the perfect hello. And now you can see it, too. Researchers from the CNRS, the ENS, and Aix-Marseille University have established an experimental method that unveils the filter—that is, mental representation—we ...
Mar 26, 2018
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