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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·April 23, 2022·4 min read

How Do Our Eyes Stay Focused on What We Reach For?

When reaching for a target object, we anchor our gaze to the target of the reach moment, thereby looking at the target for longer periods. This helps make our reach more accurate.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 18, 2022·5 min read

Infant Brain Study Helps Make Case for a Universal US Paid Leave Policy

Paid maternal leave was associated with increased activity of higher-frequency brain waves in children at three months of age.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 7, 2022·5 min read

The Format of Working Memory

Researchers have identified how working memory is formatted, revealing visual memory can be flexible.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·April 6, 2022·5 min read

What Makes Brain Cells Develop in a Specific Order?

Study identified a complete series of ten factors that regulate the development of neurons in a fly's visual system, shedding light on the order in which these neurons develop.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·January 22, 2022·5 min read

Social Isolation Among Older Adults Linked to Having Fewer Teeth

Socially isolated older adults are more likely to have missing teeth and an accelerated rate of tooth loss compared to those with stronger social networks, a new study reports.

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·November 10, 2021·4 min read

How Do We Learn to Learn?

Cognitive control training that focuses on important factors while ignoring distractions enhances information processing and enables the ability to "learn to learn".

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Featured Neuroscience

·November 3, 2021·5 min read

Bilingualism Comes Naturally to Our Brains

Language switching comes naturally for bilingual people as their brains have a mechanism that does not detect a switch in language, allowing for a seamless transition in comprehending more than one language at once.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·October 9, 2021·4 min read

Adults Who Stutter Don’t Stutter When They’re Alone

When alone, people who stutter tend not to be more fluent when talking. Researchers say the perception of being heard plays a key role in stuttering.

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Featured Neuroscience

·September 15, 2021·5 min read

Study Pinpoints the Uncertainty of Our Working Memory

Brain areas associated with working memory also gauge the quality and uncertainty of memories. Researchers reveal details about the neural mechanisms of working memory that allow us to make decisions based on our certainty of memories.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·September 1, 2021·4 min read

People Look Alike if We Think They Have Similar Personalities

Knowledge of an individual's personality can influence the perception of a face's identity and bias it toward unrelated people or identities, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 26, 2021·2 min read

What’s the Cost of Self-Control? New Study Tabulates the Bill

Study reveals the measures we take to prevent having to exert self-control in daily life.

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Featured Neuroscience

·August 11, 2021·5 min read

“Experienced” Mouse Mothers Tutor Other Females to Parent, Helped by Hormone Oxytocin

Mouse mothers gathering their pups train female mice without pups to perform the same behavior. In virgin mice, observing the mother mouse take care of her pups stimulates oxytocin production, biologically shaping them for maternal behavior.