Year after year, carnival in Rio makes one thing perfectly clear: samba moves people. The pounding drums elicit exuberant...
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Estimating the pace of change
Novel approach for determining timescales might pave way for new insights in neuroscience An international team of...
Prefrontal cortex involved in conscious vision
Use of ambiguous visual stimuli to disambiguate the neural correlates of consciousness An international group of...
Out of rhythm: Compromised precision of theta-gamma coupling...
Episodic memory declines with advancing adult age. This decline is particularly pronounced when associations between items...
Near-natural, fractal architecture promotes well-being
Basic researchers call for urban design based on scientific facts An interdisciplinary group of researchers uses basic...
Locus coeruleus integrity is related to tau burden and memory...
Abnormally phosphorylated tau, an indicator of Alzheimer’s disease, accumulates in the first decades of life in the...
The dark matter of the brain
Omnipresent and yet hardly explored: Electrical synapses. They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet...
Another Way of Being in Tune: How Fingers and Brains Coordinate...
Playing an instrument presents an enormous challenge for our brains. How exactly the brain masters the complex...
Stress factor regulates obesity
Researchers find new link to cell’s recycling system. For the first time, the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and...
Prediction games in the brain
In the primary visual cortex, neurons fire particularly strongly when prediction errors occur. And, unlike previously...