The strongest predictor of musical skill acquisition is intelligence, followed by musical aptitude.
To accurately perceive another person, your neural representation of that person has to match the pattern in the persons' brain when they think about themselves.
The human brain acts like an indexing system to help compose the meaning of abstract concepts.
Entropy during consciousness is higher than during unconscious states.
Combining neuroimaging and a constructed virtual reality town, researchers found the brain uses three different systems to perceive environment. One system allows us to recognize a place, another helps navigate through that location, and the third helps navigate from one place to another. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps encode location recognition, while the retrosplenial complex allows for mentally mapping the locations of specific places.
Criticality in the brain was linked to inhibitory neurons imposing and organizing the computational dynamics.
Propranolol, a common 'beta-blocker' drug used to control blood pressure, could be a promising new treatment for those on the autism spectrum. The medication improved cognitive performance and positively altered the frontal-parietal control network, an area of the brain associated with word and information processing, in those with ASD.
Noradrenaline is essential for astrocytes to respond to local stimulation.
The left and right hemispheres of the brain are characterized by different word processing strategies.
Increased activity of the ventromedial geniculate body indicates the processing of auditory information begins before the auditory pathways reach the cerebral cortex.
A visual test may be a new tool in the diagnosis of autism. Individuals on the autism spectrum are slower to dampen neural activity in response to visual stimuli in the brain. Using EEG data collected from the visual region, researchers could predict with 87% accuracy whether or not a person had ASD.
An individual's level of general knowledge is associated with structural brain network connectivity. Fluid intelligence is best predicted by cortex volume in males, and by functional network connectivity in females.
