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·February 9, 2022·5 min read

Astrocytes Display Unique Activity Patterns

Astrocytes may play a significant role in information processing and memory, a new study reports.

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·January 2, 2022·4 min read

Sleeping Mice Show Busy Brains

Findings reveal the brain may optimize visual information processing depending on its conscious state.

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·December 22, 2021·4 min read

Key Neural Mechanism Believed to Support Advanced Cognitive Abilities Identified

Researchers have identified a neural mechanism that supports advanced cognitive functions such as planning and problem-solving. The mechanism distributes information from a single neuron to larger neural populations in the prefrontal cortex.

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·December 3, 2021·4 min read

Whether People Inform Themselves or Remain Ignorant Is Due to Three Factors

Researchers have identified three factors that influence whether a person is likely to seek more information or ignore facts about their health, finances, and personality traits.

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·December 3, 2021·3 min read

Pandemic Worriers Shown to Have Impaired General Cognitive Abilities

Researchers say the COVID pandemic has had an impact on people's cognitive abilities and risk perception.

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·November 18, 2021·5 min read

The Brain Uses Bodily Signals to Regulate Fear

Study reveals how the brain relies on feedback from the body to regulate fear response. When a mouse's body freezes in response to fear, its heart rate slows, and this leads to attenuated insular cortex activity.

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·August 11, 2021·6 min read

Memory and Information Processing Affected by Isolation

30% of people reported changes in cognition, memory, and problems with information processing as a result of social isolation caused by pandemic lockdowns.

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·August 7, 2021·3 min read

Switching System Used in Information Processing and Memory Revealed

A new system within the brain uses for information processing and memory storage has been discovered. The findings provide novel insight into how the brain functions.

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·May 22, 2021·5 min read

Fly Brains Make Predictions, Possibly Using Universal Design Principles

Findings suggest prediction may be a general feature of animal nervous systems in supporting quick behavioral changes.

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·May 15, 2021·4 min read

Children Likely to Be Pleading Guilty When Innocent

Young people are more susceptible to pleading guilty to a crime, even though they are innocent. Researchers say the differences in children's brains which affect their sensitivity to reward and punishment, and differences in information processing could be factors as to why they are more likely to plead guilty.

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·May 15, 2021·4 min read

Empathic and Altruistic, or Cold and Individualistic: Our Brains Reveal the Truth

Prefrontal cortex activity reveals those who have a more detached personality have similar activity when processing information relating to both social and non-social stimuli. By contrast, those who are more agreeable have significant differences in PFC activity when processing the different forms of information.

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·May 1, 2021·4 min read

How Does the Brain Flexibly Process Complex Information?

Researchers identify the mechanisms that support the brain's ability to adapt the way it processes information depending upon the environment we are in.