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·July 5, 2024·5 min read

How Our Brain Deciphers Gaze Direction

A new study reveals the precise moment the brain detects gaze direction, enhancing our understanding of social interactions and disorders like autism and Alzheimer's. Researchers used EEG and machine learning to analyze brain activity when participants viewed avatars with varying head and eye directions.

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·June 24, 2024·5 min read

Hippocampus Distinguishes Urgent from Future Goals

Researchers discovered how the brain prioritizes immediate and distant goals. Their study found that the hippocampus processes urgent goals faster and differently than future goals. This insight could help understand psychiatric disorders like depression, which affect goal-setting abilities. The findings reveal crucial differences in brain activity and behavior related to goal prioritization.

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·March 19, 2024·6 min read

AI Breakthrough: Machines Mastering Human Tasks Through Language

Researchers made a significant leap in artificial intelligence by developing an AI capable of learning new tasks from verbal or written instructions and then verbally describing these tasks to another AI, enabling it to perform the same tasks. This development highlights a unique human-like ability in AI for the first time—transforming instructions into actions and communicating these actions linguistically to peers.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·March 7, 2024·7 min read

Drawings Shape Math Problem-Solving Skills

Researchers uncovered the connection between individuals' drawings and their arithmetic problem-solving strategies. By analyzing the illustrations produced by both children and adults when tasked with solving simple mathematical problems, the research team discovered that certain types of drawings correlate with the most efficient calculation methods.

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·March 4, 2024·5 min read

Substance Abuse Beyond Dopamine and Impulsivity

Researchers shed new light on why some individuals are more vulnerable to substance abuse than others, focusing on the relationship between impulsivity, dopamine production, and cocaine use. Through a study on rats, they discovered that impulsivity predicts cocaine consumption not through dopamine production capacity but possibly through the control of its release.

Autism Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·January 12, 2024·6 min read

Eye-Tracking Unveils Autism’s Distinctive Worldview and Social Focus Shift

Researchers have discovered that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) develop distinct attentional preferences compared to typically developing children, focusing more on non-social stimuli like objects and textures. Using eye-tracking technology on children viewing cartoons, the study found that unlike their peers, ASD children do not exhibit the same developmental trajectory in social attention.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·October 16, 2023·6 min read

Dreams Across Cultures: How Societies Shape Our Dreamscapes

Researchers conducted a study analyzing dreams of individuals across different cultures. By comparing dreams of forager communities in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo with Western dreams, they found the former often depicted more threatening yet socially-supportive scenarios.

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·September 29, 2023·4 min read

Circadian Rhythm Off Beat: Parkinson’s and Nighttime Neuron Damage

Researchers delved into the enigma of sleep disturbances and their relation to Parkinson's disease. Utilizing fruit flies, they found that cellular stress linked to Parkinson's was especially damaging to neurons during nighttime.

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·September 25, 2023·5 min read

Decoding Brain Inflammation

Researchers studied the TSPO protein, a marker for visualizing cerebral inflammation. Although used in hundreds of PET scans, its exact significance in relation to inflammation remained uncertain.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 17, 2023·5 min read

How Music Can Prevent Cognitive Decline

Listening to or practicing music had positive implications on cognitive decline in older adults by stimulating the production of gray matter in key brain areas, a new study reveals.

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Featured Genetics Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·March 1, 2023·4 min read

How to Generate New Neurons in the Brain

After discovering the importance of cell metabolism in neurogenesis, researchers were able to increase the number of neurons in the brains of adult and elderly mice.