How the brain decides to punish or not
The bilateral claustrum, right inferior frontal gyrus, and left superior frontal gyrus remain active during activities involving social punishment.... Read More...
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Some hyper-realistic masks more believable than human faces
New hyper-realistic masks are so authentic that 20% of the time, people believe they are real faces.... Read More...
New Alzheimer’s risk gene discovered
Study implicates a genetic variation within a segment of the Mucin 6 gene as a new risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.... Read More...
Shining a light on synaptic plasticity
AMPA receptors form and disintegrate continually, rather than existing as stable entities. The findings shed light on the early stages of synaptic plasticity.... Read More...
How people trick themselves into thinking something is heavier than it really is
Holding a steering wheel at different arm positions can influence our perception of how much force we need to steer.... Read More...
Walking changes vision
Walking leads to an increase in processing of peripheral visual input.... Read More...
Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder
When we see a painting, we rate its aesthetic value based upon other artwork we have just seen. ... Read More...
Predicting Alzheimer’s disease-like memory loss before it strikes
Sharp-wave ripple activity in the brain may be an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease before cognitive impairment begins.... Read More...
Brain scans reveal how the human brain compensates when one hemisphere is removed
The brains of adults who received hemispherectomies as children had unusually strong connections between functional brain networks in the remaining hemisphere, which help the body to function as if the brain were intact.... Read More...
Ayahuasca DMT compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state
DMT alters electrical activity in the brain. The compound significantly decreases alpha wave activity, the dominant rhythm associated with wakefulness, and increases theta waves, associated with dreaming. Overall brain activity becomes more chaotic and less predictable. The findings advance the understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of immersive states of consciousness.... Read More...
Newborn baby hiccups could be key to brain development
Contractions of the diaphragm muscles during hiccuping evoke a significant response in the brain's cortex, causing two large brainwaves followed by a third. The third brainwave is similar to that evoked by noise.... Read More...
How humans’ sense of ‘intuitive physics’ leaves fingerprints on fictional worlds
Intuitive sense not only underpins our understanding of the real world but also helps inform us of the fictional worlds we create.... Read More...