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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·May 15, 2019·2 min read

Scientists suss out the secrets of human screams

While screams contain certain shared acoustic factors, such as pitch and roughness, they differ in terms of emotional context.

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·May 13, 2019·4 min read

Researchers seek ‘fingerprints’ of severe mental diseases

Neuroimaging study finds significant changes in the brain associated with mental illnesses that could serve as a biomarker for diagnosis.

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Autism Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·May 7, 2019·2 min read

Autism gene linked to brain and behavior deficits in mice

A deficiency of the SHANK3 gene, a gene associated with ASD, results in structural and functional deficits in the prefrontal cortex. The functional and structural alterations in the PFC were linked to an impairment in social interaction in male mice.

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·May 6, 2019·6 min read

A brain region for Pokémon characters?

Adults who played Pokemon video games as children had preferential activation in the visual system for Pokemon character, researchers report. The finding shed light on the development of the visual system and categorization in the brain.

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·May 6, 2019·4 min read

Dataset bridges human vision and machine learning

BOLD5000, a new, large scale data set of brain scans of people viewing images, is helping researchers to better understand how the brain processes images. The data set is a big step towards using computer visual models to study biological vision.

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·May 4, 2019·3 min read

Widespread brain connections enable face recognition

The connectivity between the face processing network and other networks associated with the processing of visual, social and auditory cues help predict how well we remember a familiar face.

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·May 4, 2019·3 min read

Gender impacts brain activity in alcohol use disorder

Men with alcohol use disorder have diminished brain activity in areas associated with emotional processing, memory and social processing, compared to women with AUD. The findings may lead to gender-specific treatments to help relieve addition to alcohol.

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·May 2, 2019·4 min read

Brain imaging lie detector can be beaten with simple techniques

Current fMRI tests designed to detect deception by looking at specific areas of the brain may be vulnerable to mental countermeasures. In order to improve reliability, researchers call for whole brain analysis, rather than just examining brain regions of interest.

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·May 1, 2019·4 min read

How our brain generates consciousness; and loses it

Medically induced loss of consciousness disrupts neuron population activity patterns by generating fewer discriminable network microstates, and fewer neuronal ensembles. Findings suggest local neuronal ensemble dynamics may contribute to the emergence of conscious states.

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·April 25, 2019·3 min read

Sleep frees the hippocampus for new memory contents

A rapid memory system transition from the hippocampus to the posterior parietal cortex is stabilized as we sleep. Sleep and repeated rehearsal of memory jointly contribute to long-term memory consolidation.

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·April 25, 2019·4 min read

Brain scans on movie watchers reveal how we judge people

Using a combination of movie clips and neuroimaging, researchers find people have positive biases to those they feel are more like them, even if they are unable to see the person's face.

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·April 25, 2019·3 min read

Exercise activates memory neural networks in older adults

Acute exercise in older adults has a positive impact on brain regions associated with memory and recall. Older adults who engaged in acute exercise had greater activation in the temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus and hippocampus, resulting in increased semantic memory activation.