Before he wrote the recent book The Brain from Inside Out, the neuroscientist György Buzsáki previewed some of the...
Cognition
Researchers are watching the brain memorizing rooms
Our brains construct mental maps of the environment from the experiences of our senses. This allows us to orient...
Vegetarians are slimmer and less extroverted than meat eaters
The fewer animal products someone consumes, the lower their body mass index and the less extroverted the person tends to...
Neuroaesthetics
Neuroaesthetics uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences, such as...
Short nerve fibers made visible
A team led by Nikolaus Weiskopf from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig has now...
Babies retain even detailed events during a nap
While sleeping the brain goes through previously experienced things, consolidates new memory contents and summarizes...
Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates...
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage [1, 2]; its poetic...
Listening to birdsong reveals basic features of rate perception...
The timing of acoustic events is central to human speech and music. Tempo tends to be slower in aesthetic contexts: rates...
A cat-and-mouse game: The brain has two systems for thinking...
The brain seems to have two different systems through which we can put ourselves into the shoes of someone else. These two...
Stroke: When the system fails for the second time
After a stroke, there is an increased risk of suffering a second one. Until now, it was known that if areas in the left...