How does the human brain work better than the best supercomputer?
What’s a neural circuit?
What do you see in your mind?
Some people lack the ability to visualize in their minds. What makes their brain different?
Ataxia and Autoimmune Encephalitis
Anyone can develop ataxia, but why are people with autoimmune disorders more susceptible?
Restoring Sight to the Blind
Restoring sight to the blind sounds like science fiction, but a recent study puts us one step closer to making this fantasy a reality.
Why getting better at baseball might require just a little sleep
A new study found that activating memories through learning-associated sound cues during sleep improved the performance of a motor task
Image memorability: A shared tendency to remember certain things we see
What makes some images easier to remember than others?
Dissociative Identity Disorder
How early childhood trauma can lead to the development of multiple personalities.
Memory Suppression Genes – Team Forgetful
Part of the answer to “why can’t I remember where I put it ?!?!”
The Neuroscience of Skill
The delicate dance of building and breaking down that goes into learning a new skill
Octopi feel pain like you and I
New research shows that octopuses can have the negative emotional experience of pain
Can we prevent memory loss?
Scientists may have found a way to prevent age-related memory loss.
In Sync: The Neuroscience of Successful Communication
What is happening differently in our brains when conversations click versus when they don’t?
Why Does Sex Feel So Good?
What makes sex feel so good? What about it keeps our brains and bodies wanting more?
Parenting across species
Similarities and differences in dog-owner and child-parent relationships
Get a Grip
Humans rely on visual representation of hands to grasp and use tools
Brain Fog and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Brain fog is a common symptom of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome but what causes altered brain function, and could this be happening in patients infected with COVID-19?
Dissociative amnesia?
Scientists find neurological signatures of dissociation
A Calming Presence
How do social interactions help us through stress?
Do I know you?
To learn about how we recognize faces, neuroscientists study the most and least skilled face recognizers.
Stressing Yourself Sick: The Impact of Stress on the Gut
How does stress affect the health and function of your gut?
Creativity in the Brain
Beyond the left brain / right brain hypothesis
Am I Hearing Things?
For the first time, researchers can study auditory hallucinations in mice
Brain Maps
Special cells in the brain help you navigate your world
Brain Beats
Can’t figure out what to listen to next? Try out binaural beats!
Out with the old and in with the new? Navigating the explore-exploit trade-off
How do we decide when to try something new and when to stick with what we know?
Forgetting, remembering, and stress
How is memory affected by stress? It all comes down to timing.
What can cause our brains to forget?
Recent research suggests microglia, the immune cells in your brain, are responsible for forgetting memories.
How Spotify Uses What We Know About the Brain to Make Music Recommendations
Big companies like Google and Spotify use what we know about the brain to build a class of models called neural networks that help power many of their services.
Tone-Deafness and the Brain
How does our brain help us sing in tune and what goes wrong in tone-deaf individuals?
The Benefits of Gift Giving
Does giving a gift actually make you happier?
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