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Our Brain is a Prediction Machine that is Always Active
Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when...
Language as a Marker of the Mind
In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University...
The effect of the color red on brain waves
Red has a signaling and warning effect. Is this color specificity also reflected in the brain? Researchers at the Ernst...
How visual information travels from the retina to the midbrain
New Neuropixels technology provides evidence of mosaic-like neural connections For the first time, neuroscientists from...
Max Planck Florida Researcher Receives Prestigious NIH New...
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) announces that Dr. Hidehiko Inagaki has been awarded an NIH...
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals
Researchers from Dresden uncover a greater neuron production in the frontal lobe during brain development in modern humans...
The hemispheres are not equal: How the brain is not symmetrical
Although the brain is divided into two halves, it is not exactly a mirror image. Some functions are processed more on the...
Neural Synchronization is Strongest to the Spectral Flux of Slow...
Neural activity in the auditory system synchronizes to sound rhythms, and brain–environment synchronization is thought...