Neuroscience

  1. Neuroscience

    Our brains sort words as we sleep

    Even after nodding off, a person’s brain correctly sorts words into categories, adding to the achievements of the sleeping brain.

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  2. Neuroscience

    To study attention, pay attention to bats

    Studying how bats’ brains find prey using echolocation could have implications for the way human brains pay attention.

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  3. Neuroscience

    Children’s brains shaped by music training

    After two years of an enrichment program, children’s brains showed more sophisticated response to spoken syllables.

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  4. Neuroscience

    Pulses to the brain bring memory gains

    The ability to associate faces with words is boosted when an outer part of the brain is stimulated, a study shows.

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  5. Neuroscience

    Laser light rewrites memories in mice

    Mouse experiment demonstrates that good memories can be transformed into bad ones, and vice versa.

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  6. Tech

    To have a sound mind, a brain needs a body

    Replicating human intelligence in robots requires the right materials for brain-body-environment interactions.

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  7. Animals

    Hummingbirds evolved a strange taste for sugar

    While other birds seem to lack the ability to taste sugar, hummingbirds detect sweetness using a repurposed sensor that normally responds to savory flavors.

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  8. Animals

    Dolphins and whales may squeal with pleasure too

    Dolphins and whales squeal after a food reward in about the same time it takes for dopamine to be released in the brain.

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  9. Neuroscience

    Neurons in silk scaffold mimic behaviors of a real brain

    Proteins of silkworm cocoons can form the scaffold for a three-dimensional model of a brain.

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  10. Neuroscience

    Prosthesis uses swinging arms to tell legs when to step

    Device creates artificial neural connection that could help paralyzed people walk.

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  11. Neuroscience

    Busy neurons don’t always draw blood

    Study of mice suggests caution in inferring the activity of the brain’s neurons from functional MRI results.

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  12. Neuroscience

    Music soothes the aging brain in film ‘Alive Inside’

    A social worker highlighted in a new documentary goes on a quest to bring tunes to nursing homes.

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