Scientists unveil the format of working memory
A team of scientists has discovered how working memory is "formatted"—a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored.
Apr 7, 2022
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A team of scientists has discovered how working memory is "formatted"—a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored.
Apr 7, 2022
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As medical advances help individuals with HIV survive longer, there is an increasing need to treat their chronic symptoms. One of the most common is neuropathic pain, or pain caused by damage to the nervous system.
Nov 5, 2021
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You are on a Zoom call when suddenly the audio lags behind the video. Your colleague's lips move, but it looks like a dubbed movie—a minor inconvenience. Yet this minor issue is quite detrimental for scientific experiments ...
Sep 6, 2021
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An important function of vision is to segregate relevant figures from the irrelevant background. A visual stimulus drives a cascade of neural activity from low-level to higher level visual brain areas. The higher areas also ...
Jun 30, 2021
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When you slip into sleep, it's easy to imagine that your brain shuts down, but University of Michigan research suggests that groups of neurons activated during prior learning keep humming, tattooing memories into your brain.
Feb 22, 2021
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Many people have an intuitive, though incorrect, understanding of how the brain works: Our senses perceive objectively factual data, and our higher-level thought processes interpret that data, pull some levers and shape our ...
Jul 17, 2019
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When scientist Thorsten Kahnt was a high school student in Nuremberg, Germany, his friend Christian sported chin-length, curly brown hair. Then one day Christian appeared with newly buzzed hair, only half an inch long.
Apr 23, 2018
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Seeing an object at the same time that you hear sound coming from somewhere else can lead to the "ventriloquist illusion" and its aftereffect, but research suggests that simply imagining the object produces the same illusory ...
Apr 12, 2018
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Nystagmus is a genetically transmitted disease that causes an uncontrolled, back-and-forth twitching of the eyeball. Roughly one in every 1,500 men suffer from it. But before now, we did not know that this twitching is caused ...
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Standard models of perception are stimulus-driven, meaning that the external perceptual event drives the brain's perception-related activity. However, the tide may be turning: recent ideas suggest that our perceptual experiences ...