The brain processes different facial features separately, so how does it tie them together?
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Different parts of our brains process different things, like the facial features, voices and the gait of people we know. But it takes memory to weave them all together into a single picture.
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Nearly everyone can’t tickle themselves and it’s all to do with how our brains see and perceive movement.
An early understanding of numbers may be a sign of mathematical ability.
Oksana Kuzmina
You may have got what it takes to be a mathematical genius without even being aware of it.
Humidity levels can mean life or death for insects.
Hasna Lahmini
Detecting drier or wetter conditions is crucial for insect survival. We’ve long known they can do this – now researchers have discovered the genetic and neural basis for their humidity-sensing system.
Is addiction a brain disease or a disease of choice?
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What exactly is addiction? What role, if any, does choice play? And if addiction involves choice, how can we call it a “brain disease,” with its implications of involuntariness?
A new person?
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A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it’s not clear who the new person would be.
‘Receiving you loud and clear.’
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Our heads are like radio receivers, and they can tune in to various different channels.
Some of us can’t help moving to a beat.
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The reason why some of us can’t help but to dance, and others can’t hold a beat, might lie in the brain.
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Researchers are trying to fill in the blanks between genetic blueprints and psychiatric disorder by studying changes in the brain.
One part of our brain keeps a lookout when we sleep in a new environment.
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Have you ever arrived in a hotel room after a long flight and despite being exhausted, failed to fall asleep? This is called the first-night effect and we may have understood why it occurs.
Are compound eyes the window to the soul?
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Insects have similar structures in their brains as do we, and that might mean that have a basic form of consciousness.
The malleable brain.
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Without the ability to rewire itself, the brain wouldn’t be able to grow or recover from injury.
Consciousness remains one of the most puzzling phenomena in science.
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Consciousness is one of the most puzzling phenomena in science. How does the electric and chemical activity in your brain produce your subjective experiences; the colour red or the taste of chocolate?
Antimemory, the yin to memory’s yang.
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The theory of antimemories could help explain many cognitive problems in the brain such as autism and schizophrenia.
Psychogenic fugue – when you can’t remember anything from your past.
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People lose their memory in many different ways. A neuropsychologist explains the lingo.
Sometimes science needs to look at the bigger picture in order to best influence public policy.
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Science is about more than protons, genes and neurons. Sometimes a bigger picture can help us make better decisions when it comes to public policy.
Of one mind.
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Philosophically speaking our smartphones could be seen as an extension of us. But where does that leave us legally?
Strange cravings.
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Part two: neuroscience reveals why mood swings, clumsiness and strange food cravings go hand in hand with pregnancy.
Our brains are different, but can sex explain why?
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Are there sex differences in the human brain? The answer is more nuanced than yes or no.
Learning to cope.
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A disease which can mimic the slow march of old age is especially cruel and challenging for those in the prime of life.