How the Brain Detects, Identifies and Acts on Taste
A new EEG study sheds light on how we identify and discriminate between tastes to assess if a substance is nutritious or toxic.... Read More...
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Life is Like a Box of Hippocampal Scenes
A new neuroimaging study of people watching the movie Forrest Gump reveals the hippocampus is sensitive to meaningful units of experience, rather than perceptual cues.... Read More...
Learning to See Friendly Faces in Different Places
Researchers report on how the brain learns to recognize an individual face, regardless of where it appears in different visual locations.... Read More...
How Nature and Nurture Shape the Sleeping Brain
Using EEG to study twin teenagers, researchers tease apart the influence of genetic and environmental factors on brain activity during sleep.... Read More...
Eye Movements Take Edge off Traumatic Memories
Researchers report EMDR, a widely used but controversial psychotherapy technique, can help suppress fear related amygdala activity during the recall of traumatic memories.... Read More...
How the Brain Biases Beliefs
Researchers report the interaction between two regions of the prefrontal cortex may underlie our motivation to cling to a desirable notion about the future.... Read More...
Adult-Child Conversations Strengthen Language Regions of Developing Brain
Researchers report the greater conversational turn taking between adults and children, the stronger the connections are between the Wernicke's area and Broca's area in the child's brain. ... Read More...
Molecular Switch Triggers Itch
Researchers have discovered two distinct pathways through which a single molecule can cause both painful and itchy skin.... Read More...
Alzheimer’s Risk Gene Impairs Neurogenesis: Mouse Study
A new mouse study finds APOE genes, commonly associated with Alzheimer's disease, impairs the development of new neurons in areas of the brain associated with memory.... Read More...
The Heritability of Anxiety
A new study reports individual differences in connectivity between areas of the brain associated with fear and anxiety are heritable.... Read More...
What Keeps the Brain Awake?
A new study reveals a specific pathway in the brains of fruit flies that prevents them from falling asleep during the day.... Read More...
How Time Affects Learning
Researchers report people retain arbitrary associations when they learned the associations in short sessions spaced over a few weeks rather than one 20 minute session.... Read More...