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Study identifies our ‘inner pickpocket’

Neuroscience NewsMay 21, 2019

People are able to form the correct mental model of puzzles from either visual or haptic experiences alone and are able to predict haptic properties from visual ones. Findings suggest humans segment scenes into objects without explicit boundary cues by using purely statistical information.... Read More...

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Brain mapping: New technique reveals how information is processed

Neuroscience NewsMay 1, 2019

Combining infrared laser stimulation with ultra-high-field MRI, researchers revolutionize brain mapping.... Read More...

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New research offers insight into the proteins in the brain that detect cannabis

Neuroscience NewsApril 30, 2019

The secretory pathway delivery of cannabinoid type 1 receptor is axonally based, and surface expressed CB1R is more stable in axons than dendrites.... Read More...

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Depression in early adulthood linked to memory loss in your fifties

Neuroscience NewsMarch 21, 2019

An accumulation of depressive symptoms suffered between a person's twenties and forties are a strong indicator of linear decreases in memory function during their fifties.... Read More...

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Delusions may stem from sticky beliefs

Neuroscience NewsMarch 21, 2019

Delusional thinking is associated with slower alterations in personal belief, a new study reports. People who suffer more delusions also tend to seek out more information prior to making a guess, contradiction previous findings that those with psychosis are more prone to 'jump to conclusions'.... Read More...

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How Attention Helps the Brain Perceive an Object

Neuroscience NewsMarch 19, 2019

Low-frequency optogenetic stimulation of the visual region of the brain impairs an animal's ability to make fine sensory discriminations. ... Read More...

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How the Brain Responds to Texture

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 8, 2019

A new study reports neurons in the somatosensory cortex respond differently to various features of a surface, creating a high dimensional representation of texture in the brain. The findings could help develop neuroprosthetics capable of identifying textures in greater detail.... Read More...

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Hearing and Deaf Infants Process Information Differently

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 6, 2019

A new study reports it takes longer for deaf infants to become familiar with new objects. Researchers say the study highlights a difference in how infants process information, even when the information is not auditory in nature.... Read More...

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Word Order Predicts a Native Speakers’ Working Memory

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 4, 2019

Researchers say the language we speak can affect the way in which we process, store and retrieve information. ... Read More...

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Inability to Integrate Reward Information Contributes to Undervalued Rewards in Schizophrenia

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 22, 2019

A new computational model reveals the impaired ability to integrate size and probability of reward in those with schizophrenia may be the result of a lack of consideration of the magnitude of the reward.... Read More...

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