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·May 18, 2023·6 min read

Comedy and Cognition: Unraveling Humor’s Neural Nook

Researchers are studying humor's neural substrates, utilizing physical comedy clips from Charlie Chaplin. The researchers observed brain activity of epileptic patients, while they watched Chaplin's comedic scenes, using intracerebral electrophysiological recordings to capture high precision data.

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·April 7, 2023·5 min read

In Bilingual Readers, the Visual Cortex Processes Latin and Chinese Characters Differently

In people who are bilingual in English and Chinese, certain cortical areas react specifically to Chinese ideograms and appear to be involved in facial recognition processing.

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·February 1, 2023·7 min read

A Subtitled World: Uncovering the Secrets of Tickertape Synesthesia

Study reveals how we connect sounds, letters, and words to their meaning, and the mechanisms behind why those with "ticker-tape" synesthesia tend to see subtitles when listening to the spoken word.

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·January 27, 2023·6 min read

Towards Better Management of Disinhibition in Frontotemporal Dementia

People with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) exhibit behaviors that are considered socially unacceptable. While there is no current cure for FTD, researchers are finding methods to help inhibit some of the negative behaviors associated with FTD. A new study reports impulsivity and negative behaviors are greatly reduced in those with bvFTD when the patient is focused on a task.

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·October 6, 2022·5 min read

Mechanism for the Antidepressant Effect of Ketamine Revealed

Those with treatment-resistant depression showed significant improvement in symptoms and became more receptive to positive experiences following a one-week ketamine treatment regimen.

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·July 2, 2022·5 min read

Decision-Making: A New Distribution of Tasks in Our Prefrontal Cortex?

Study reveals how specific tasks are distributed to different areas within the prefrontal cortex to help with decision-making processes.

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·June 29, 2022·5 min read

How Do We Explore Our Knowledge to Be Creative?

Researchers say creativity is linked to two different semantic memory processes.

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·June 29, 2022·5 min read

Visual Mental Imagery: A Patient Case Suggests a New Key Brain Network

Researchers identified a novel brain network that includes the fronto-parietal networks and fusiform gyrus which helps with the encoding of visual mental imagery.