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·November 26, 2025·9 min read

Brain Rebuilds New Skills Using “Cognitive LEGO Blocks”

New research reveals that the brain’s flexibility comes from its ability to reuse “cognitive building blocks” across many tasks, allowing rapid adaptation with minimal relearning. By studying monkeys performing a set of related categorization tasks, researchers found that the prefrontal cortex combines and recombines shared neural patterns like components in a modular system.

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·September 3, 2025·7 min read

New Brain Map Shows How Decisions Emerge Across the Brain

In a groundbreaking collaboration, scientists created the first complete brain-wide map of decision-making in mammals, charting the activity of more than 600,000 neurons across 279 regions in mice. Using steering wheel tasks and high-density electrode recordings, they found that decision-related signals are far more widely distributed across the brain than previously thought.

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·June 25, 2025·5 min read

How Brain Cells Coordinate to Make Complex Decisions

Every decision begins subtly, as the brain weighs options long before action. Researchers have now shown that, despite individual differences in neuron activity, a shared underlying structure guides the brain toward unified decisions.

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·October 21, 2022·5 min read

Prior Stressful Events Can Help Build Resilience

A display of defensive behaviors, when faced with an aggressive mouse, predicted a smaller mouse's ability to become resilient following a traumatic event. Stimulating dopamine production in defensive smaller mice induced resilience.

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·April 13, 2022·5 min read

What Do You See When You Listen to Music?

Music can paint similar stories in listeners' minds, but the degree to which the imagined narratives are shared depends upon the degree to which culture is shared between the listeners.

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·March 9, 2021·6 min read

Life Expectancy Falling for Adults Without a Bachelor’s Degree

Since 2010, there has been an absolute rise in mortality for adults without a college degree. For those with higher education experience, mortality rates have decreased during the same time period.

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·January 10, 2020·5 min read

Baby and adult brains ‘sync up’ during play

Researchers detect measurable similarities in brain activity between babies and adults during play.

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·December 9, 2019·6 min read

In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in the eyes of others

There may be some truth to the common idea that we judge a person's competence based on the clothes they wear. A new study reveals we perceive a person to have higher levels of competence if the clothes they wear look expensive.

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·November 25, 2019·3 min read

Neuroscientists develop models to identify internal states of the brain

The machine learning model may be widely adopted to identify connections between neural activity and natural behavior.

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·July 26, 2019·5 min read

The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults do

Both adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.

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·May 16, 2019·2 min read

Flexibility of working memory from random connections

Researchers present a new model that may explain the flexibility of working memory.

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·October 18, 2018·4 min read

Bee Study Links Genes to Social Behaviors, Including Autism

Bees are helping researchers to uncover genes responsible for social behaviors, including social deficits associated with ASD. Researchers have identified 200 new gene variations linked to social behaviors, with 21 clustered in or nearby 6 genes implicated in autism.