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·September 23, 2017·4 min read

Our Ability to Recognize Letters Could Be Hard Wired Into Our Brains

According to researchers, there may be a relationship between written shapes and the sounds they represent.

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·September 22, 2017·5 min read

When Neurogenesis Goes Wrong

Researchers discover post stroke neurogenesis in the hippocampus is linked to worse performance in hippocampal memory tasks.

Featured Psychology

·September 21, 2017·6 min read

Babies Can Learn That Hard Work Pays Off

MIT researchers report children as young as 15 months try harder to complete a task if they witness an adult struggling to succeed than those who witness a task completed effortlessly.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 21, 2017·3 min read

Virtual Brain Lab Brings Together World-Leading Neuroscientists

A new joint initiative, dubbed the International Brain Lab, will bring together researchers from around the world to investigate the neural mechanisms of learning and decision making.

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·September 18, 2017·4 min read

Learning and Unlearning Fear: The Two Faces of Noradrenaline

RIKEN researchers report neurons in the locus coeruleus play a key role in emotional and flexible learning.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 16, 2017·4 min read

A New Mechanism For Controlling Memory

Study reveals receptor movement is essential for synaptic plasticity as a response to neural activity. Halting receptor movement may block specific memory acquisition, researchers report, thus confirming the role of synaptic plasticity in learning and memory.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 14, 2017·3 min read

Reactivating Visual Memories is a New Alternative to ‘Practice Makes Perfect’

Repeated, extensive practice can be replaced by brief memory reactivation to help boost learning, a new study reports.

Image shows the location of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the brain.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·September 11, 2017·6 min read

Cocaine Users’ Brains Unable to Extinguish Drug Associations

A new study reveals chronic cocaine users have a global impairment of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Featured Psychology

·September 11, 2017·3 min read

Eating Oily Fish During Pregnancy May Reduce Schizophrenia Risk in Offspring

A new study reports increased risk of schizophrenia in mice whose mothers were deprived of DHA during pregnancy.

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·September 9, 2017·4 min read

Great Apes Know When They Don’t Know

Max Planck Institute researchers report great apes actively seek out new information to help fill gaps in their knowledge.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·September 8, 2017·3 min read

Scientists Find the Secret to Thriving

In order to thrive, researchers say, an individual sense of development and feeling as though you are succeeding in mastering something are key.

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·September 8, 2017·4 min read

Cell Phone Use During Pregnancy Not Linked to Neurodevelopmental Problems

A new study considers the effect on an unborn child if its mother frequently uses a cell phone. Researchers did not find a neurodevelopmental risk for children of mothers who used cell phones, instead they noted some beneficial effects for language development and motor skills.

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Our Ability to Recognize Letters Could Be Hard Wired Into Our Brains

When Neurogenesis Goes Wrong

Babies Can Learn That Hard Work Pays Off

Virtual Brain Lab Brings Together World-Leading Neuroscientists

Learning and Unlearning Fear: The Two Faces of Noradrenaline

A New Mechanism For Controlling Memory

Reactivating Visual Memories is a New Alternative to ‘Practice Makes Perfect’

Cocaine Users’ Brains Unable to Extinguish Drug Associations

Eating Oily Fish During Pregnancy May Reduce Schizophrenia Risk in Offspring

Great Apes Know When They Don’t Know

Scientists Find the Secret to Thriving

Cell Phone Use During Pregnancy Not Linked to Neurodevelopmental Problems

AI Body Gap: Why Robots Need “Internal Feelings” to be Safe

Wetware AI: Living Brain Cells Trained to Run Chaos Math

Mapping the Brain’s Internal Stopwatch

Individual Cone Cells Create Our Sharpest Sight

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