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·November 18, 2018·6 min read

Could Consciousness Come Down to the Way Things Vibrate?

A new paper proposes resonance may contribute to human consciousness.

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·October 5, 2018·3 min read

How the Brain Learns During Sleep

A new study sheds additional light on how the brain consolidates memory during sleep. Researchers report rapid fluctuations in gamma band activity in the hippocampus during nREM sleep helps facilitate memory reactivation.

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·January 7, 2019·5 min read

How the Brain Decides Whether to Hold ’em or Fold ’em

Researchers shed light on the neural mechanisms behind risk taking behaviors. The study reveals the decision to 'up the ante', even when faced with long odds, is a result of an internal bias that adds up over time and involves a 'push pull' dynamic between the two hemispheres of the brain.

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·May 30, 2014·2 min read

How Brains Remember and Correct

Researchers detect brief bursts of neural activity oscillating in two specific areas of a mouse brain just before the animal makes a correct choice, either when planning an action or correcting a mistake.

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·January 27, 2016·5 min read

How The Brain Communicates on Several Channels

Researchers demonstrate that the visual cortex in human subjects uses different frequency channels depending on the direction of the information being transported.

The image shows the hippocampus location in a rat's brain.

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·April 17, 2014·4 min read

Neurons Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks

A new study could provide insight into memory problems seen in neurodegenerative diseases in which gamma waves are disturbed.

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·August 24, 2014·4 min read

Driving Brain Rhythm Makes Mice More Sensitive to Touch

Using optogenetics, researchers endow mice with greater touch sensitivity.

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·June 1, 2020·7 min read

Out-of-sync brain waves may underlie learning deficit linked to schizophrenia

Study reveals specific brain wave patterns that underlie the ability to remove irrelevant learned associations to make way for new, updated information. The research shows a particular behavior can be dependent on the synchronization of high-frequency brain waves in different parts of the brain.

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·October 24, 2017·4 min read

The Rhythm of Memory

A new Nature Communications study sheds light on how the brain processes information relevant to memory.

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·January 14, 2016·3 min read

How We Play Memories in Fast Forward

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that could explain how the brain can recall recent events, but in a fraction of the time it took to experience them.