Pediatrics
Poor air quality linked to cognitive problems in babies
Poor air quality could be causing cognitive deficits in babies and toddlers, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Apr 25, 2023
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Neuroscience
A peek into the interplay between vision and decision making in the brain
An all-RIKEN team of neuroscientists has mapped out neurons in the mouse visual system that are selectively activated during decision-making, and may directly influence this process. To achieve this, they combined a cleverly-crafted ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Medical research
'Binocular' treatment followed by sleep found to help with a common vision problem
Amblyopia, sometimes called lazy eye, is a common vision problem in children and babies, and it's typically been treated by having the child wear a patch on the stronger eye, with the goal of improving sight for the weaker ...
Apr 18, 2023
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Neuroscience
Can you describe a sensation without feeling it first?
Blind or colorblind people can describe colors and use expressions like "green with envy" or "feeling blue." A hearing-impaired person can also say those same vibrant hues are "loud." But many linguists and cognitive neuroscientists ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Health
What causes motion sickness? Here's how to reconcile the mismatch in what your senses are telling your brain
My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from the seafloor off the California coast. It was a day trip, the ...
Apr 11, 2023
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Neuroscience
Table tennis brain teaser: Playing against robots makes our brains work harder
Captain of her high school tennis team and a four-year veteran of varsity tennis in college, Amanda Studnicki had been training for this moment for years.
Apr 10, 2023
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Neuroscience
In bilingual readers, the visual cortex processes Latin and Chinese characters differently
Nearly half of humanity speaks more than one language, and many adults can read and master several writing systems. How does the visual cortex adapt to the recognition of words written with different characters? To answer ...
Apr 7, 2023
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Health
Researchers remove uncertainty in question of roadway lighting impacts on human health
New research from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute is shining a light on lighting uncertainties.
Apr 7, 2023
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Neuroscience
How the brain slows down when we focus our gaze
Changing between slow and fast integration of information, the brain can flexibly modulate the timescales on which it operates. This is the result of a new study by an international team of researchers, now published in the ...
Apr 6, 2023
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Neuroscience
How does our brain create a coherent image when we look at different objects?
When we look at something, the different properties of the image are processed in different brain regions. But how does our brain make a coherent image out of such a fragmented representation? A new review by Pieter Roelfsema ...
Apr 5, 2023
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