FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·May 15, 2021·4 min readEmpathic and Altruistic, or Cold and Individualistic: Our Brains Reveal the TruthPrefrontal 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·May 1, 2021·4 min readHow 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 14, 2021·3 min readHow Neural Systems Process and Store InformationA single neuron is able to select between different patterns, dependent upon the properties of individual stimuli.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·April 6, 2021·5 min readStudy Links Prenatal Phthalate Exposure to Altered Information Processing in InfantsFetal 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.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·March 26, 2021·3 min readHypnosis Changes the Way Our Brain Processes InformationUnder hypnosis, the brain shifts to a state where individual areas act more independently of each other than they do during typical waking state.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 18, 2021·3 min readThe Brain Region Responsible for Self-Bias in MemoryStudy implicates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with information processing about the self, in self-bias memory.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 23, 2020·3 min readPsychosis Symptoms Linked to Impaired Information Spread in the BrainWhite matter connectivity does not directly induce psychosis, but may affect symptoms of psychosis through its effect on the consciousness threshold.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 26, 2020·3 min readHow to Figure Out What You Don’t KnowTesting 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.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·October 15, 2020·5 min readHow the Nervous System Mutes or Boosts Sensory Information to Make Behavioral DecisionsResearchers have identified a novel neural network in fruit flies that converts external stimuli of varying intensity into decisions about whether to act.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 11, 2020·5 min readAs Information Flows Through Brain’s Heirarchy, Higher Regions Use Higher Frequency WavesStudy provides new insight into how brain waves control the flow of information through the cortex.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 3, 2020·4 min readIs Consciousness Continuous or Discrete? Maybe It’s BothA new two-stage model seeks to answer a longstanding philosophical debate over whether consciousness is continuous or discrete. Findings suggest discrete consciousness is preceded by a long-lasting unconscious processing period.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·August 31, 2020·6 min readWarning Witnesses of the Possibility of Misinformation Helps Protect Their Memory AccuracyWhen people were warned about the inaccuracy of retelling events, they were less susceptible to misinformation. Providing warnings increased reinstatement of visual activity associated with witnessing an event and decreased the reinstatement of auditory activity associated with hearing misleading post-event information.Read More
