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Researchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal | news @ Northeastern
A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain | WIRED
It’s a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that jou...
Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps, and the uncanny valley… | Accidental Scientist
It should be safe to conclude that humans can see frame rates greater than 24 fps. The next question...
Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks
The discovery of causal relationships from purely observational data is a fundamental problem in sci...
Decreased segregation of brain systems across the healthy adult lifespan
The brain is a large-scale network, not unlike many social or technological networks. Just like soci...
1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity
the neuroscience of consciousness
Consciousness has traditionally been a philosophical question due largely to a lack of information r...
Antidepressants rapidly alter brain architecture, study finds - LA Times
A single dose of a popular class of psychiatric drug used to treat depression can alter the brain’s ...
Pigeon paradox reveals quantum cosmic connections
A thought experiment has exposed a new kind of quantum link that could connect every particle in the...
Using rhythmic brain activity to track memories in progress
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes attached to the scalps of 25 student subjects, a UO team...
Clever Suppression in the Brain
Diversity of inhibiting nerve cells allows for more complex information processing: The hippocampus ...
U-M tinnitus discovery opens door to possible new treatment avenues
Disruption of timing from sensory nerves underlies "ringing in the ears" that plagues millions, inc...
Maxwell’s Refrigerator, Powered by Information
A proposed device can act like Maxwell’s famous demon and as a tiny refrigerator “powered” by the en...
Sleep's memory role discovered
The mechanism by which a good night's sleep improves learning and memory has been discovered by scie...
Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong in real time -- ScienceDaily
Human and mouse neurons in a dish learned to play the video game Pong, researchers report. The exper...
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