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·July 15, 2021·5 min read

Spending Time Outdoors Has a Positive Effect on Our Brains

Brain structure and mood improve when people spend time outdoors. This has positive implications for concentration, memory, and overall psychological wellbeing.

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·July 9, 2021·3 min read

Hitting the Right Note: Even Professional Singers Tend to Overestimate the Accuracy of Their Own Performance

Professional singers are surprisingly inaccurate when rating their own pitch accuracy. Most tend to overestimate their performance, especially if they are more accomplished musicians.

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·June 2, 2021·4 min read

Gut to Brain: Nerve Cells Detect What We Eat

When it comes to hunger and satiety, nerve cells in the vagus nerve fulfill opposing tasks.

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·June 2, 2021·3 min read

Understanding Feelings: When Less Is More

Study reveals a paradoxical relationship between the intensity of emotional expression and how the emotional output is perceived by others.

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·May 25, 2021·3 min read

Aesthetically Appealing Art Increases Creative Inspiration

Viewing art you find aesthetically pleasing can help boost your personal creativity, researchers report.

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·May 24, 2021·5 min read

Specialized Inhibitory Cluster Gates Plasticity in Fear Learning

The apical intercalated cell cluster (apITC), a specialized portion of inhibitory circuitry in the amygdala, has rich connectivity and plays a unique role in modulating synaptic plasticity.

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·May 7, 2021·5 min read

How We Retrieve Our Knowledge About the World

Our concepts of people, objects, and events are composed of sensory impressions and actions associated with them, in addition to abstract symbol-like features.

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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 30, 2021·2 min read

Navigating the Squircle

Study reveals hippocampal maps predict context-dependent behaviors.

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·April 15, 2021·4 min read

How We Know Whether and When to Pay Attention

Our ability to act fast is based on estimates of whether and when specific events will occur that demand immediate attention.

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·March 26, 2021·5 min read

The Brain Area With Which We Interpret the World

Different areas of the inferior parietal lobe specialize in distinct cognitive functions, such as language processing and social cognition. However, these areas work together in conjunction with different brain areas in process-specific ways.