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          Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·March 30, 2021·5 min read

          Screams of ‘Joy’ Sound Like ‘Fear’ When Heard Out of Context

          When people hear screams of excited happiness, they tend to confuse the emotion with fear. Researchers say the bias toward categorizing excited and joyfully screams as fear has evolutionary roots.
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          ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·July 31, 2020·5 min read

          To Distinguish Contexts, Animals Think Probabilistically

          The act of remapping an area can be mathematically modeled as probabilistic reasoning in rodents.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·January 9, 2019·4 min read

          Carrots or Candy Bars? Context Shapes Healthy Food Choices

          According to researchers, our food choices may be affected by what sits closest by on the supermarket shelf. Paradoxically, the close proximity of an indulgent food can cause more people to opt for a healthier snack.
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          ·December 11, 2018·6 min read

          How Returning to a Prior Context Briefly Heightens Memory Recall

          After creating a memory in a context, engram cells encoding the memory in the hippocampus become more excitable when the context is repeated a short time later, researchers report.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience
          ·November 1, 2017·5 min read

          Babies Can Use Context to Look For Things

          At 6 months of age, babies are capable of memory guided attention, a new study reveals. Young infants are able to learn and remember contextual visual cues to find objects of interest, researchers report. The findings shed new light on both typical and atypical brain development.
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          FeaturedPsychology
          ·August 12, 2017·5 min read

          Taboo Words’ Impact Mediated by Context, Listeners’ Likelihood of Being Offended

          According to an Acta Psychologica study, context and an individual's likelihood of being offended influence how profanity effects attention.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 21, 2017·5 min read

          Context and Distraction Skew What We Predict and Remember

          A new study looks at how context can alter how we predict weight and what we are able to remember.
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