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A guide to why your world is a hallucination
Explore a controversial, tricky theory about how our brains predict and shape reality, by leading researchers in an open online publication
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Researchers have uncovered distinct differences between people who can create visual images in their mind and those without this ability. They found more proof that ‘mind-blindness’ is a legitimate co... View More
Aphantasia: The inability to visualize images
A study investigating mind-blindness finds differences between people who lack the ability to create visual images in their mind and those who do not.
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Can’t draw a mental picture? Aphantasia causes blind spots in the mind’s eye
If you were asked to draw a picture of your grandparents’ living room from memory, could you do it? For most people, certain details are easy to visualize: “There’s a piano in the corner, a palm by th...
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Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days In Mice
In the new study, UCSF researchers showed rapid restoration of youthful cognitive abilities in aged mice, accompanied by a rejuvenation of brain and immune cells that could help explain improvements i...
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Better than human experimentation lol and they're pretty similar to us.
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I know, i was just being sarcastic. 
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"Understanding how the 'Christmas spirit' works as a neurological network could provide insight into an interesting area of human neuropsychology and be a powerful tool in treating ailments such as 'b... View More
Finding “Christmas Spirit” In Your Brain » Brain World
University of Copenhagen researchers have conducted an imaging study, where they sought to locate the “center” of Christmas spirit within the human brain.
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Great Apes, long praised for their extraordinary cognitive abilities, may have a rival in the battle of the brains. In a series of 33 tests of cognitive ability, researchers found that young ravens sc... View More
Four-Month-Old Ravens Rival Adult Great Apes in a Battle of the Brains
In a series of cognitive tests, the corvids surprised scientists with their ability to interact with each other and with the world around them
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recru...
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Neuroscientists at the German Primate Center (DPZ)-Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have developed a model that can seamlessly represent the entire planning of movement from seeing ... View More
Model describes complete grasping movement planning in the brain
Neuroscientists at the German Primate Center (DPZ)-Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have developed a model that can seamlessly represent the entire planning of movement from seeing ...
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Radicals seem to be good for the brain
Scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) report in the journal Cell Stem Cell that reactive oxygen molecules, also known as ‘free radicals.’ are important for the brain’s ...
