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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·May 21, 2019·6 min read

Developing a headset to transfer visual perceptions from the sighted to the blind

Researchers are developing a new brain-to-brain communication headset that will allow the transfer of visual information from those with sight to the blind. The non-invasive system will 'write' information to neurons reprogrammed to fire in response to magnetic signals.

Featured Psychology

·March 6, 2019·5 min read

Looks Matter When It Comes to Success in STEM, Study Shows

Researchers look into how racially stereotypical appearances and prejudice affect outcomes for students in STEM fields.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 5, 2018·6 min read

Neurons Ripple While Brain Rests to Lock in Memories

Using a model commonly used in machine learning, researchers discover how the brain encodes spatial maps and stores information while at rest.

Featured Psychology

·March 17, 2018·3 min read

A Little Anger in Negotiations Pays

If you want a positive outcome when negotiating, displaying moderate intensity anger can help you get what you want, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 18, 2017·6 min read

Nanotubes Go With the Flow to Penetrate Brain Tissue

A new device that uses fast flowing fluids to insert nanotubes into the brain may be used to help treat a number of neurological diseases, researchers say.

Featured Neurology

·October 19, 2017·5 min read

Binding Sites on Amyloid Beta Peptide Discovered

Researchers have invented a probe that lights up when it binds to a misfolded amyloid peptide.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 19, 2017·6 min read

Tangled Up in Gray: Shifting Relationship Between Flexibility and Modularity in Brain Discovered

A new study reveals flexibility and modularity are negatively correlated in the brain.

Image shows four subunits of NMDA receptor proteins.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·October 9, 2017·6 min read

Nerve Cells’ Gatekeepers Take Many Forms

Rice University researchers detail the dynamics of how receptors alter their shapes to control sensitivity of the gate to chemical signals.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 7, 2017·4 min read

Brain Wiring Affects How People Perform Specific Tasks

How well we are able to complete simple and complex tasks depends upon the organization of subnetworks in the brain, a new study reports.

Image shows diagrams of neural networks.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 8, 2017·5 min read

Simple Tasks Don’t Test Brain’s True Complexity

The brain's ability to use approximate probabilistic inference can not be studied by simple tasks that are not well suited to expose the inferential computations that make the brain special, researchers say.