Brain cells use a 'telephone trick' to report what they see
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
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"How many fingers am I holding up?"
Nov 29, 2022
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Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have expanded the understanding of how the brain is engaged during complex audiovisual speech perception.
Sep 21, 2022
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Though many of us may seek a quiet place in which to study, "noise" may play a key role in helping some people improve their learning potential.
Sep 5, 2022
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Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you're looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the early 1950s, the significance ...
Aug 26, 2022
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The risk of infection during pregnancy has always been a concern, but the high rate of illness during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential impact of infection on a developing brain.
Jul 21, 2022
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The physical sensations that accompany sadness can feel as undesirable as they are intense—a constriction of the chest, watery eyes and a raw throat, to name a few.
Apr 20, 2022
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Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they ...
May 11, 2021
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A tiny fish is helping scientists understand how the human brain processes sound, while also giving insight to autism spectrum disorder.
Nov 10, 2020
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Schizophrenia is associated with a wide range of cognitive impairments including sensory information processing. Findings showed that impaired sensory processing, either hypo- or hyper-reactivity to sensory stimuli, is an ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Auditory hallucinations, a phenomenon in which people hear voices or other sounds in the absence of external stimuli, are a feature of schizophrenia and some other neuropsychiatric disorders. How they arise in the brain has ...
Jun 30, 2020
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