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·February 19, 2025·6 min read

15 Key Motives Drive Human Behavior

Researchers analyzed human motivation from an evolutionary perspective, identifying 15 key motives that drive behavior. These motives, grouped into five categories—environmental, physiological, reproductive, psychological, and social—reflect adaptations that helped early humans survive.

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·August 4, 2023·6 min read

A Fresh Look at Free Will: Challenging the Libet Paradigm

A recent study challenges the long-standing Libet paradigm about free will. The team discovered that the EEG activity, dubbed readiness potential, registered before decision-making in Libet's original experiment has no direct correlation to the actual decision.

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·April 25, 2023·4 min read

Gray Matter Volume Linked to Language Deficits in Autism

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who have language impairment show lower gray matter volume and greater gyrification in the temporal and frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, which are crucial for language function. The study's findings could help design specialized education programs for children with autism by understanding the structural characteristics that contribute to behavioral deficits.

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·March 21, 2023·5 min read

Readers Found to Rely on Word Spelling Rather Than Sound in Reading

Both adults and young children rely on orthographic information, or letter image and word length, over phonological information when reading.

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·January 19, 2023·7 min read

Neural Prosthesis Uses Brain Activity to Decode Speech

A newly developed machine learning model can predict the words a person is about to speak based on their neural activity recorded by a minimally invasive neuroprosthetic device.

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·January 13, 2023·4 min read

Corpus Callosum Found to Switch off Right Hemisphere During Speech

Study confirms the role the corpus callosum plays in language lateralization.

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·December 30, 2022·4 min read

Ketamine Found to Increase Brain Noise

By inhibiting NMDA receptors, ketamine increases noise to gamma frequencies in one layer of the thalamic nucleus and one lay of the somatosensory cortex. Findings suggest psychosis may be triggered by an increase in background noise impairing thalamocortical neurons which may be caused by a malfunction in NMDA receptors affecting the balance of inhibition and excitation in the brain.

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·September 26, 2022·3 min read

AI Worse at Recognizing Images Than Humans

Most AI models are unable to represent features of human vision, making them worse at recognizing images.

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·September 23, 2022·4 min read

Brain Simultaneously Processes Linguistic and Extralinguistic Information

People automatically incorporate extralinguistic information into grammatical processing during verbal communication.

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·July 9, 2022·4 min read

It’s Easier to Forgive When You Are Under Chronic Stress

People who experience chronic stress are more forgiving toward others than those who experience everyday stresses.

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·July 5, 2022·4 min read

Learning Is Based on Neurons’ Ability to Cooperate for Survival

Exploring systemwide intracellular metabolic cooperation as a mechanism for learning offers promise for a better understanding of how memory and learning occur in the brain.