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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.

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·April 14, 2021·3 min read

How Neural Systems Process and Store Information

A single neuron is able to select between different patterns, dependent upon the properties of individual stimuli.

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·April 6, 2021·5 min read

Study Links Prenatal Phthalate Exposure to Altered Information Processing in Infants

Fetal exposure to phthalates alters cognitive processing in young children, a new study reports. Children whose mothers were exposed to higher levels of phthalates during pregnancy exhibited slower information processing skills. Male children were most likely to experience difficulties.

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·March 26, 2021·3 min read

Hypnosis Changes the Way Our Brain Processes Information

Under hypnosis, the brain shifts to a state where individual areas act more independently of each other than they do during typical waking state.

This shows the VMPFC highlighted on drawings of the brain

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·January 18, 2021·3 min read

The Brain Region Responsible for Self-Bias in Memory

Study implicates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with information processing about the self, in self-bias memory.

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·November 23, 2020·3 min read

Psychosis Symptoms Linked to Impaired Information Spread in the Brain

White matter connectivity does not directly induce psychosis, but may affect symptoms of psychosis through its effect on the consciousness threshold.

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·October 26, 2020·3 min read

How to Figure Out What You Don’t Know

Testing multiple computational models of the nervous system, researchers discover that just because a model can make accurate predictions about data, this doesn't always translate into the underlying logic of the biological system it represents.

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information processing

Switching System Used in Information Processing and Memory Revealed

Fly Brains Make Predictions, Possibly Using Universal Design Principles

Children Likely to Be Pleading Guilty When Innocent

How Does the Brain Flexibly Process Complex Information?

How Neural Systems Process and Store Information

Study Links Prenatal Phthalate Exposure to Altered Information Processing in Infants

Hypnosis Changes the Way Our Brain Processes Information

The Brain Region Responsible for Self-Bias in Memory

Psychosis Symptoms Linked to Impaired Information Spread in the Brain

How to Figure Out What You Don’t Know

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