FeaturedNeuroscience·April 7, 2025·6 min readHow One Bad Meal Rewires the Brain to Avoid That Food ForeverA new study reveals how a single food poisoning experience creates long-lasting aversive memories in the brain. Researchers found that mice developed strong aversions to a flavored drink after getting sick, even with a 30-minute delay between consumption and illness.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 2, 2024·6 min readFirst Full Brain Map of Adult Fruit Fly CreatedResearchers have created the first neuron-by-neuron map of an adult fruit fly brain, marking a major achievement in brain mapping. The map, built using 21 million images, connects nearly 140,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, making it the most complex brain map of any adult animal to date.Read More
ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscience·November 3, 2023·8 min readDecoding Brain Signals: Study Shines Light on Neural PathwaysResearchers used the simple worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, to gain profound insights into how neural information flows in the brain. Using advanced techniques like optogenetics, they visually tracked signal flow in real-time, neuron by neuron, to chart its pathways.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·October 21, 2021·7 min readPeople’s Eyes Reveal That Clichés Are UnderratedEye-tracking reveals the brain pays more attention to conventional metaphors than it does to similar alternatives.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 25, 2020·5 min readBasketball on the Brain: Neuroscientists Use Sports to Study SurpriseResearchers monitored brain activity and eye movement of basketball fans watching March Madness games to study how people process surprise.Read More
FeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPainPsychology·September 21, 2020·5 min readMiddle-Aged Americans Report More Pain Than the ElderlyMiddle-ages adults are reporting more chronic pain symptoms than older generations. Those who are less educated are more likely to report symptoms of chronic pain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 19, 2020·8 min readLoners help society surviveEvolution does select for loner behavior, at least in slime molds. Loners provide both an ecological and evolutionary way to diversify a genetic portfolio to ensure the survival of the social, collective behavior.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 22, 2018·4 min readThe Spotlight of Attention is More Like a StrobeA new study EEG study reveals human and monkey attention pulses in and out four times per second.Read More
Brain CancerFeaturedNeuroscience·June 29, 2018·4 min readApplying Computing Power to Track the Spread of CancerA new computational model increases the ability to track the spread of cancer throughout the body, researchers report.Read More
AutismFeaturedNeuroscience·December 8, 2017·5 min readHope for Autism: Optogenetics Shines Light on Social InteractionsOptogenetics helps researchers discover how social behavior and spatial learning are linked in autism.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·June 29, 2017·4 min readPeople Prove Adept at Predicting Emotional TransitionsWhile it is easy for most of us to read the emotions of those around us at a given time, researchers suggest that people are also skilled at predicting future emotions in others, thanks to a mental model of emotional transitions.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·May 26, 2017·5 min readMonkey Say: Marmosets Learn to Call the Same Way Human Babies Learn to BabbleJust as a baby's babbles begin to sound more like recognizable human speech if they receive frequent vocal feedback from adults, the same kind of interaction speeds up speech acquisition in marmosets, a new study reveals.Read More
