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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·November 9, 2018·4 min read

Brain Learns to Recognize Familiar Faces Regardless of Where They Are in Visual Field

Researchers report facial recognition varies by where they appear in the visual field, and this variability is reduces through learning familiar faces via social interactions. The study reports repeated social interactions tune visual neurons in the face processing network to enable consistent and rapid rapid recognition of familiar faces.

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·July 17, 2017·4 min read

Brief Interactions Spur Lasting Waves of Gene Activity in the Brain

Researchers report they are able to see alterations in gene expression up to two hours after a stickleback fish interacts with an intruder. They speculate the changes in gene expression and chromatin modification could help set up the brain to respond to future threats. The study appears in PLOS Genetics.

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Featured Neuroscience Neurotech Psychology

·May 10, 2021·6 min read

Implanted Wireless Device Triggers Mice to Form Instant Bond

A new wireless, battery-less brain implant that harnesses optogenetics can manipulate social interactions in mice.

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Autism Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·February 24, 2014·3 min read

New Study Settles How Social Understanding is Performed by the Brain

New research settles how the brain makes sense of actions it witnesses others performing in daily life.

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Autism Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·February 1, 2017·5 min read

Social Biases Contribute to Challenges for Those With Autism

Social difficulties in people with autism are exacerbated by how other people perceive them at first meeting, researchers report.

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·March 21, 2018·4 min read

Social Impairment Levels Remain Stable in Patients with Psychotic Disorders

Researchers report levels of social impairment remain stable for those with psychosis, years after their first hospitalization.

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Featured Neuroscience

·December 2, 2021·4 min read

Tracking the Neurons That Make Us Social

The motivation to invest in social interactions is closely linked to the reward system via the activation of dopaminergic neurons.