Articles About neuroscience
Peer Pressure: Why the Presence of Friends Changes an Adolescent Brain
In the experiments that made this finding famous the friends were in another room and could not speak to the teenager at all. The risk taking went up anyway.
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23 Aug
Learned Helplessness: The Famous Experiment Its Own Author Later Corrected
The 1967 experiment is famous. What almost nobody mentions is that the researchers behind it later published a paper calling their own interpretation backwards.
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16 Aug
Neural Entrainment: How the Brain Locks Onto a Beat Without Being Asked
Your brain starts tracking a rhythm before you decide to listen. What that tracking actually is remains one of the liveliest arguments in neuroscience.
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15 Aug
Interoception: The Body Signals That Shape Thinking Before You Notice Them
Your heartbeat changes what you remember. The finding is real and specific. It also rests on smaller samples and a shakier measuring stick than anyone admits.
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15 Aug
Predictive Processing: The Brain Guesses First and Checks the World Later
Your brain builds the world first and uses the senses to correct the draft. The evidence is strong in places, thin in others, and the field is still arguing.
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15 Aug
Optical Illusions: What Your Brain's Visual Mistakes Reveal About Normal Seeing
Illusions get sold as your brain being fooled. The research says something stranger. They are what correct seeing looks like when you hand it a rigged input.
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15 Aug
Synesthesia: When Numbers Have Colors and Memory Gets an Extra Handle
For some people a 7 is green and a Tuesday is maroon. What the research says about whether that second layer really helps them remember will surprise you.
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14 Aug
The Glymphatic System: How the Sleeping Brain Flushes Its Own Waste
The brain has no lymph vessels. What it uses instead runs on your heartbeat and switches on at night. Whether sleep really speeds it up is now an open fight.
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14 Aug
Oxytocin and Social Memory: Why the Brain Files People Differently From Facts
Your brain keeps a separate index for people. It runs on one hormone and one narrow strip of hippocampus, and it can fail while other memory stays intact.
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14 Aug
