Researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have provided new insights into the functional role of the PPC in decision-making. They report compelling evidence showing that the posterior ...
May 8, 2019
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Hearing, sight, touch – our brain captures a wide range of distinct sensory stimuli and links them together. The brain has a kind of built-in filter function for this: sensory impressions are only integrated if it is necessary ...
May 1, 2019
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How sensory perception in the brain affects learning and memory processes is far from fully understood. Two neuroscientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a new aspect of how the processing of odours impacts ...
Apr 30, 2019
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If mice lose their vision immediately after birth due to a genetic defect, this has a considerable impact, both on the organisation of the cerebral cortex and on memory ability. This is the conclusion drawn by researchers ...
Dec 19, 2018
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Columbia neural engineers discover a mechanism by which the locus coeruleus modulates information processing in the thalamus; their findings of how sensory information is encoded in the healthy brain may lead to new treatments ...
Dec 17, 2018
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The hippocampus may relay predictions about what we expect to see based on past experience to the visual cortex, suggests a human neuroimaging published in JNeurosci. The study is among the first to examine the interaction ...
Jul 13, 2018
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Here's the neuroscience of a neglected banana (and a lot of other things in daily life): whenever you look at its color—green in the store, then yellow, and eventually brown on your countertop—your mind categorizes it ...
Jul 10, 2018
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Cindy was cradling her 9-month-old son, Elias, against her chest when she and a room full of family simultaneously yelled "Surprise!" to an unsuspecting aunt on her birthday. The outburst shot like a bolt of electricity through ...
Jun 29, 2018
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The value of the products we encounter influences how much we'll subsequently pay for other items, new neuroscience research has found. The results point to a previously undetected factor that affects consumer behavior.
Nov 13, 2017
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Most people will startle when they hear an unexpected loud sound. The second time they hear the noise, they'll startle significantly less; by the third time, they'll barely startle at all. This ability is called acoustic ...
Apr 11, 2017
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