The visual system is probably the best understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to recognize your grandmother's face, to track...
This is a reconstruction of a pair of synaptically connected CA3 pyramidal neurons. Inset shows a light-micrograph of the single synaptic contact that forms the connection.Credit: Copyright by IST Austria, 2016
The hippocampal CA3 region plays a key role in...
Illinois professor Aron Barbey led a study that examined how cognitive cross-training affects skill learning.
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Just as athletes cross-train to improve physical skills, those wanting to enhance cognitive skills can benefit from multiple ways of exercising...
When becoming literate neuroplasticity conquers a network that is deeply rooted in the brain. This reorganisation makes us more and more efficient in visually navigating through letter strings.
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences
Reading is such a...
Left: the white dot moves from the left to the right side of the screen in 0,5 seconds. The bottom image shows the brain activity pattern in the visual cortex, which is similar to the visual dot stimulus. Right:...
Marijuana. An estimated 2-13% of women worldwide use cannabis during pregnancy. Previous studies have identified short and long-term behavioral consequences of prenatal cannabis exposure, but effects on brain morphology were unknown, until now. Credit: © Charlón / Flickr
Cannabis use...
Over the past few years, scientists have faced a problem: They often cannot reproduce the results of experiments done by themselves or their peers.
This "replication crisis" plagues fields from medicine to physics, and likely has many causes. But one...
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Mandarin makes you more musical - and at a much earlier age than previously thought. That's the suggestion of a new study from the University of California San Diego. But hold on there, overachiever parents, don't'...
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of interconnected brain clusters crucial to promoting behavior...
Children's self-esteem is linked to the behaviour of who is considered the most powerful parent within the household, new University of Sussex research suggests.
The study of English and Indian families living in Britain is the first to assess the...
Data from the first 5,000 UK Biobank participants taking part in the world’s largest health imaging study has been released for health researchers worldwide to use in their own research.
Meanwhile, early results from analysing brain imaging data alongside thousands...
