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Featured Neuroscience

·July 20, 2026·10 min read

Monkeys and Kids Share Evolutionary Intuitions for Geometry

A new study reveals that non-human primates share a fundamental intuition for geometry with humans.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 15, 2026·11 min read

Aligning Brain Waves and Machine Learning

By explicitly linking reinforcement-driven human neuroplasticity with gradient-based decoder optimization, the framework unifies biological trial-and-error learning with mathematical machine learning loops.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·June 17, 2026·9 min read

Trauma and Poverty Linked to Brain Changes in Schizophrenia

A new study demonstrates that adverse social determinants of health, such as childhood trauma, poverty, discrimination, and isolation, are directly linked to structural and functional brain changes associated with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·March 7, 2026·9 min read

How the Brain Compensates for Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease causes the brain to rewire its executive and attention networks to compensate for low oxygen levels.

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Featured Neuroscience

·July 22, 2025·7 min read

AI Chatbots Overestimate Themselves, and Don’t Realize It

AI chatbots often overestimate their own abilities and fail to adjust even after performing poorly, a new study finds. Researchers compared human and AI confidence in trivia, predictions, and image recognition tasks, showing humans can recalibrate while AI often grows more overconfident.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·May 10, 2024·5 min read

Do We Really Learn From Failure?

A recent study investigated how cardiothoracic surgeons learn from failures, revealing that there is a threshold beyond which they no longer gain knowledge from their mistakes. The research highlights that this threshold varies depending on a surgeon's perceived ability to learn.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 19, 2023·6 min read

Scratching Below the Surface: Tech Measures Scratch Intensity

Researchers have developed a wearable device to objectively gauge scratching intensity. This innovation aids in the assessment of itch-relieving medications. The device combines an accelerometer with a unique contact microphone to capture the intensity and vibrations of scratching.

Featured Neuroethics Neuroscience

·May 25, 2023·3 min read

Rights or Rites? Reimagining Robots’ Moral Status through Confucian Lens

As robots become more pervasive in our society, the question of whether they should be granted rights is a subject of increasing debate. A new analysis challenges this view. Instead of rights, researchers propose we view robots as 'rites bearers', drawing on principles from Confucianism that emphasize social harmony and role obligations.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 23, 2023·4 min read

Basal Ganglia Pathway Key to Learning, Not Motor Control

In a radical shift from the past 30 years of neuroscience, researchers have discovered that the basal ganglia, a crucial part of the brain involved in motor control and learning, plays a more significant role in learning than previously thought. Contradicting long-standing beliefs, the study shows that the "indirect pathway" in the basal ganglia drives learning rather than motor control.

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Featured Neuroscience

·March 20, 2023·1 min read

New Head-Worn Device to Control Mobile Manipulators Developed

A newly developed head-worn device allows users with movement disorders and paralysis to better control mobile manipulators, thus improving quality of life and increasing personal autonomy.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·January 25, 2023·3 min read

Movement Information Offers Critical Visual Cues

The brain uses motion cues to decipher how we see objects, a new study reports.

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Featured Neuroscience

·August 18, 2022·2 min read

Novel Method Aims to Demystify Communication in the Brain

A newly developed statistical method is able to disentangle signals relayed between brain areas, even when the communication between the brain areas is bidirectional.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Monkeys and Kids Share Evolutionary Intuitions for Geometry

Aligning Brain Waves and Machine Learning

Trauma and Poverty Linked to Brain Changes in Schizophrenia

How the Brain Compensates for Sickle Cell Disease

AI Chatbots Overestimate Themselves, and Don’t Realize It

Do We Really Learn From Failure?

Scratching Below the Surface: Tech Measures Scratch Intensity

Rights or Rites? Reimagining Robots’ Moral Status through Confucian Lens

Basal Ganglia Pathway Key to Learning, Not Motor Control

New Head-Worn Device to Control Mobile Manipulators Developed

Movement Information Offers Critical Visual Cues

Novel Method Aims to Demystify Communication in the Brain

How Severe Illness During Pregnancy Alters Fetal Brain Development

Aging Brains Maintain Robust Language Networks Despite Cognitive Decline

Youth Protein TIMP2 Restores Immune Function in the Aging Brain

Shame, Stigma, and Culture Prevent Male Domestic Violence Survivors From Seeking Help

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