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Media Multitasking Disrupts Memory, Even in Young Adults
Simultaneous TV, texting and Instagram lead to memory-sapping attention lapses
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Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
MIT neuroscientists have identified a brain circuit critical for learning to make decisions that require evaluating the cost or reward of an action. They showed this circuit is negatively affected by ...
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Neural pathway crucial to successful rapid object recognition in primates
Rapid recurrent processing in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) helps primates quickly identify objects, according to research from MIT's McGovern Institute and Center for Brains, Minds, and...
No Implants Needed For Precise Control Deep Into The Brain
Optogenetics can now control neural circuits at unprecedented depths within living brain tissue without surgery
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"When we started looking at how music —'sonic seasoning'—can change the taste of the food, that was really surprising. Can you really change the taste of food, coffee, or wine by playing some music?" ... View More
The Neuroscience of Taste: A Q&A With Psychologist Charles Spence » Brain World
“When we started looking at how music—“sonic seasoning” —can change the taste of the food, that was really surprising,” says Dr. Charles Spence.
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Soooo, then what kind of music would make my piss beer taste better? Asking for a friend.
- October 25, 2020
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Humans are born with brains ‘prewired’ to see words, study finds. Brain scans of newborns showed a part of the visual cortex was connected to the language network of the brain, even before any exposur... View More
Humans are born with brains ‘prewired’ to see words
Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for people to learn how to read, a new study suggests. Analyzing brain...
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Creativity Emerges from Spontaneous Neural Activity - Weizmann Wonder Wander - News, Features and Discoveries
Creative ideas are linked to resting fluctuations that begin as a kind of noise
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"To recognize a chair or a dog, our brain separates objects into their individual properties and then puts them back together. Until recently, it has remained unclear what these properties are. Scient... View More
From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects
To recognize a chair or a dog, our brain separates objects into their individual properties and then puts them back together. Until recently, it has remained unclear what these properties are. Scienti...
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Every time I read "Scientists have identified/found/discovered..." I start laughing. They do flatter themselves.
- October 20, 2020
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Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form
Encoding memories in engram cells is controlled by large-scale remodeling of the proteins and DNA that make up cells’ chromatin, according to an MIT study. This chromatin remodeling, which allows spec...
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"We are in the midst of a second Humean revolution. In his Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), the Scottish philosopher David Hume argued that: ‘Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passio... View More
Neuroscience has much to learn from Hume’s philosophy of emotions | Psyche Ideas
According to philosopher David Hume, it takes a lifetime to get our emotions right. Neuroscience has much to learn from him
