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·June 16, 2021·7 min read

How Do We Know Where Things Are?

A framing strategy constantly works behind the scenes to stabilize our visual experience, a new study reports.

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·June 3, 2021·4 min read

Neuroscience Doesn’t Undermine Free Will After All

A new study brings into question conventional theories of the neuroscience of free will. Researchers found readiness potential reflects neural activity that underlies the formation of a decision to move, rather than the outcome to move.

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·May 13, 2021·4 min read

Study Reveals Where Memories of Familiar Places Are Stored in the Brain

Researchers have identified three areas of the posterior cerebral cortex that bridge the brain's perception and memory systems.

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·April 27, 2021·5 min read

Psst! Have You Heard That Gossip Isn’t All Bad?

While gossiping generally has negative connotations, a new study says gossiping can be a rich and multifaceted form of communication. Gossip can help to build social connections and improve indirect understanding about the world.

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·March 2, 2021·6 min read

The Most Detailed Look Yet at the Neuroscience of Placebo Effects

Patients who reported a greater reduction in pain following being administered a placebo showed larger reductions in brain areas associated with pain construction.

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·February 11, 2021·4 min read

How Do Our Memories Take Shape?

Findings shed light on how experiences are committed to memory and later recounted to others.

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·September 14, 2020·3 min read

Smartphones Can Predict Brain Function Associated With Anxiety and Depression

Data collected from smartphones can accurately predict connectivity between brain regions associated with emotional processing. Analyzing cellphone data, such as social activity, screen time, and location, alongside fMRI brain scans, researchers found smartphone data activity mirrors brain activity associated with depression and anxiety.

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·August 17, 2020·5 min read

To Perceive Faces, Your Brain Relies on a Process Similar to Computer Face Recognition Systems

Some patients with a disorder called hemi-PMO see distortions in the same half of a person's face, regardless of the angle they view the face. Findings suggest the visual system standardizes all the faces we perceive using the same process, so they can be better compared to faces we have seen before.

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·June 16, 2020·4 min read

Your brain shows if you are lonely or not

In the medial prefrontal cortex, loneliness is associated with a reduced representational similarity between the self and others. Feeling socially disconnected may be mirrored by a self-representation of being a "loner."

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·June 8, 2020·4 min read

Our visual world of color is largely incorrect

People are oblivious to change when color is removed from peripheral vision. Research reports the brain likely fills in for much of our perceptual experience when it comes to seeing the entire picture in color.

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·February 27, 2020·5 min read

How the brain forms habits

As the brain starts to develop new habits, activity in the dorsolateral striatum increases. As the activity bursts increase, the habit becomes stronger. Inhibiting neural activity with optogenetics reduces habit behaviors in mice.

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·August 15, 2019·4 min read

Autism can be measured through a non-verbal marker

A visual test may be a new tool in the diagnosis of autism. Individuals on the autism spectrum are slower to dampen neural activity in response to visual stimuli in the brain. Using EEG data collected from the visual region, researchers could predict with 87% accuracy whether or not a person had ASD.

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How Do We Know Where Things Are?

Neuroscience Doesn’t Undermine Free Will After All

Study Reveals Where Memories of Familiar Places Are Stored in the Brain

The Most Detailed Look Yet at the Neuroscience of Placebo Effects

How Do Our Memories Take Shape?

Smartphones Can Predict Brain Function Associated With Anxiety and Depression

To Perceive Faces, Your Brain Relies on a Process Similar to Computer Face Recognition Systems

Our visual world of color is largely incorrect

How the brain forms habits

Autism can be measured through a non-verbal marker

From Vinyl to Visions: Fruit Flies Showcase Decision-Making Prowess

Jellyfish Show Remarkable Learning Skills

Upside Down World: Unique View Offers Clues to Face Recognition

Brain’s Blue Spot, Locus Coeruleus, Is A Key Player in Sleep Quality and Memory

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