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You can memorise faces in a single glance without trying
In a nutshell: New research shows that we create detailed memories of faces in a single glance without trying. Surprisingly, trying to recall them doesn't improve our memory very much. Read more
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Using physics to understand the ‘music’ of the brain
In a nutshell: A physics-based approach successfully explains mysterious oscillations in brain activity that are like the notes produced by a musical instrument. Read more
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Paying attention helps your brain process what you can’t see
In a nutshell: Paying attention to a location helps the brain to process not just what you can see there, but also what you can’t – suggesting that attention and awareness are controlled by different pathways in the brain. Read more
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Without attention, you can see a lot – but not everything
In a nutshell: Novel research shows that we can be conscious of a face’s gender even when paying little or no attention to it. Read more
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The brain uses the same pathways when we produce speech and predict sounds
In a nutshell: By comparing brain activity when individuals are making sounds, anticipating forthcoming sounds or listening to sounds passively, researchers have shown that the same pathways are involved. Read more
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Redrawing the map of brain connections involved in extinguishing learned fear
In a nutshell: The identification of a new connection in the brain involved in reducing the fear response upends the current model of fear extinction. Read more
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Polar expedition: mapping connections at the tip of the brain
In a nutshell: Humans are not the only primate species to have subdivisions in the frontopolar cortex. Read more
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What’s that? How the brain makes sense of objects in surprising and unsurprising places
In a nutshell: Several areas of the brain involved in processing visual information respond differently depending on whether an object is in an expected or an unexpected location. Read more
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A part of the brain can still see – even if you can’t
In a nutshell: Even if the primary visual cortex is damaged — causing blindness — the pathway that transmits visual information from the retina is not completely destroyed. The penultimate stop on the pathway still processes visual information, even if it has nowhere… Read more
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In-phase doesn’t help, anti-phase doesn’t hinder
In a nutshell: In-phase or anti-phase electrical stimulation of the brain’s hemispheres does not affect the ability to track objects moving between the left and right fields of vision. Read more
