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·February 2, 2023·7 min read

Sparse, Small, but Diverse Neural Connections Help Make Perception Reliable and Efficient

Thalamic inputs into superficial layers of the cerebral cortex are both rare and weak, yet surprisingly diverse in their distribution patterns. However, they are reliable and efficient representatives of information.

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·January 19, 2023·5 min read

Exactly How Many Senses Do We Really Have?

Do people really have a "sixth sense"? Researchers evaluate how intuition and visions, often induced, are part of our conscious experience.

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·January 17, 2023·4 min read

Broken Promises: Children as Young as 3 Can Detect Bad Excuses

When it comes to broken promises, children between the ages of 3 to 5 can detect whether the excuse is good or bad.

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·January 6, 2023·3 min read

The Brain’s Ability to Perceive Space Expands Like the Universe

Time spent in a novel environment causes neural representations to grow in a surprising way.

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·January 6, 2023·4 min read

The Power of Lines and Strokes: How Our Brain Recognizes Line Drawings

Perception of objects is robust to changes in our environment.

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·December 23, 2022·4 min read

Body Pitch and Movement Distort Perception

The failure to accurately sense body orientation relative to gravity may result in inappropriate movements or falls, as well as impair daily functions such as walking or carrying objects.

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·December 20, 2022·3 min read

Examining Children’s and Adults’ Reasoning About the Nature of Villains

Both children and adults are more likely to consider villains as having inwardly good qualities than heroes having inwardly bad qualities.

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·December 13, 2022·3 min read

A Handy Lesson About Pain and the Brain in Stroke Survivors

Following a stroke, chronic pain can alter body perception and trick the brain into believing the affected hand is a different size. This increases the risk of accidents.

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·November 30, 2022·4 min read

A Crucial Role of Brain’s Striatum Cilia in Time Perception

Destruction or removal of the cilia in the striatum impairs time perception and judgment, new research suggests. The findings could have implications for a range of diseases including schizophrenia, ASD, and Parkinson's.

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·November 28, 2022·4 min read

How Working Memory Provides a Link Between Perception and Anticipated Action

Working memory stores different types of information in flexible codes which provide optimal outcomes for all possible courses of action.

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·November 22, 2022·4 min read

Could We Train Our Brains to See New Colors?

Researchers question if our brains can take in three primary color inputs and turn them into the range of different colors we can see, could a little bit more mental work result in us unlocking different hues?