It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...
A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the ...
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Early brain regions play greater role in decision-making, challenging traditional neuroscience
New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...
For many years, a dominant view in neuroscience was that neurons in the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—a critical center in the ...
Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces have made it possible to more accurately extract speech from neural signals in humans, but language is just one of the tools we use to communicate. “When ...
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Study suggests the brain never evolved a dedicated math module
Somewhere in your skull right now, there is no math department. No region of the brain exists solely to process equations, ...
Stephen Hawking, a British physicist and arguably the most famous man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), communicated with the world using a sensor installed in his glasses. That ...
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We use many of the same brain cells to see and to imagine objects, a study suggests. The findings provide a new window into memory
Visualizing an object in the mind’s eye allows us to remember the face of someone we met long ago, or to picture an item we ...
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