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Sleep is so important that every animal seems to have a version of it. But octopus sleep is particularly weird — and intense.
Octopus sleep includes a frenzied, colorful, ‘active’ stage
Four wild cephalopods snoozing in a lab had long stretches of quiet napping followed by brief bursts of REM-like sleep.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Synchron's Stentrode implantable brain-computer interface in clinical trials with human patients. Stentrode is currently being tested in cli... View More
FDA clears Synchron’s brain-computer interface device for human trials | Engadget
A clinical trial will get under way in New York later this year..
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Brain’s ‘memory center’ needed to recognize image sequences but not single sights
The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but when they are grouped into a sequence, mice can’t recognize that without guidance from the hippocampus
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Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering
Yale researchers observing the brains of closed-eyed baby mice found waves that help explain why mammals can navigate their environment so soon after birth.
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Puts them ahead of most humans.
Behavioral and Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Crow
Different species of animals can discriminate numerosity, the countable number of objects in a set. The representations of countable numerosities have been deciphered down to the level of single neuro...
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What a time to be alive!
Your head is there to move you around: Goal-driven models of the primate dorsal pathway
Neurons in the dorsal visual pathway of the mammalian brain are selective for motion stimuli, with the complexity of stimulus representations increasing along the hierarchy. This progression is simila...
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How children integrate information
Researchers use a computer model to explain how children integrate information during word learning
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Team find brain mechanism that automatically links objects in our minds
Scientists map the part of the brain that ‘links’ similar objects, leading to new insights about how the brain processes information out of context.