Study Shows Monkeys and Children Share Geometric Intuition
Summary: A research team has shown that an intuition for two-dimensional geometry is shared across species and ages: olive baboons, Rhesus macaques,…
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Sparse Synapses Balance Cortical Clock Sync and Autonomy
Summary: Using wide-field two-photon calcium imaging while mice performed a temporal expectation task, researchers simultaneously recorded thousands of neurons in the secondary…
Why Cooperation Beats Defection in the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Summary: Researchers show that stable cooperation can arise spontaneously even without advanced cognition or complex social rules. Through evolutionary models, large-scale simulations,…
Daylight Saving Time Tied to 30% Rise in Retinal Vascular Cases
Summary: Losing one hour of sleep during the spring daylight saving time (DST) change is associated with up to a 30% higher…
Hippocampal Circuit Degeneration Explains Memory Loss and Apathy
Summary: Researchers comparing people with autoimmune limbic encephalitis to healthy control subjects used spatial memory tests and brain imaging to show that…
Why Brain Injury Often Targets the Cerebellum
Summary: Researchers have shown that tissue-specific damage in neurodegenerative disease depends on the regional abundance and isoform-specific binding preferences of the partner…
Why Book Adaptations Trigger Cognitive Dissonance
Summary: Long before cinema existed, the 19th-century boom in mass printing produced a similar cultural worry: that external images would crowd out…
Does Working Memory Drive Consciousness?
Summary: A recent review examines the complex, changeable relationship between working memory—the brain’s short-term storage—and our conscious experience. Drawing on decades of…
How the Neck Could Unlock New Brain Tumor Treatments
Summary: Researchers show that the effectiveness of anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy against brain tumors depends not only on local T cells but critically on…
BCI Neurofeedback Detects Subtle Errors by Amplifying Brainwaves
Summary: Researchers developed a real-time brain-computer interface (BCI) that functions as a closed-loop training tool for the subconscious mind. By decoding a…
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