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Neuroscience research articles and press releases that cover research published in Open Access journals are listed below. We use Open Access (OA) to mean that the general public has free, open access to research journal articles published online.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 31, 2021·6 min read

Why Can’t We Identify Music Notes as Well as Colors? Pitch Perfect Study Provides Answers

Frequency follow response (FFR) is a strong predictor of a person's ability to recognize and name musical notes, and may be an accurate metric for understanding a person's ability to recognize sounds. FFR may not be a fixed trait and can be improved over time.

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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·August 30, 2021·5 min read

Unease Beyond the Uncanny Valley: How People React to the Same Faces

A new study examines people's responses to cloned faces, which could soon be the norm for humanized robots.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·August 27, 2021·3 min read

Neurons in Visual Cortex of the Brain ‘Drift’ Over Time

Neurons in the visual cortex change their response to the same stimuli over time.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Pain

·August 27, 2021·6 min read

Maternal Voice Reduces Pain in Premature Babies

When a mother speaks to her newborn during a medical intervention, the baby's oxytocin levels increase and their expression of pain decreases.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 26, 2021·5 min read

Old Habit-Controlling Neurons May Also Help the Brain Learn New Tricks

The delicate balance between learning new behaviors and expressing old habits is controlled by two different populations of neurons in the dorsolateral striatum.

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·August 26, 2021·3 min read

Inflammatory Proteins Help Better Diagnose Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

Testing for specific inflammatory proteins in cerebrospinal fluid can help doctors to diagnose the early onset of Alzheimer's disease and track the progression of the disease in patients.

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·August 25, 2021·3 min read

How the Brain Reacts When Faced With Survival Risk

Researchers identified a signaling system in the brains of C. elegans which changes to redirect behavior when survival is at risk due to lack of food.

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Featured Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Pain Psychology

·August 25, 2021·6 min read

Virtual Reality Shown to Reduce Pain and Anxiety in Children

Virtual reality helps to relieve pain and anxiety for children undergoing medical procedures, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·August 25, 2021·5 min read

Gut Microbiome Health Plays Role in Fighting Depression During Pandemic

There is a growing body of evidence linking depression to microbiome health. A new study proposes focusing on the microbiome may help alleviate some of the symptoms of depression associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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·August 25, 2021·6 min read

Mice Can Learn Much Faster than Previously Thought

Mice learn 1,000 times faster when faced with unfamiliar environment tasks than when learning simple, yet unnatural tasks.

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·August 20, 2021·4 min read

Smells and Emotions Tug on the Brain’s Habenula

The habenula relays external information, such as sight and smell, along with internal states associated with emotion and learning to brain regions that govern adaptive behaviors.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 19, 2021·5 min read

Flawed Quality Control in the Brain

A new mouse line makes the state of protein balance visible in the mammalian brain for the first time, allowing researchers to investigate disorders associated with protein misfolding.