Evolutionary origins of the nervous system
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A number of recent studies provide clues to the evolutionary origins of the nervous system
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Brain mechanisms of hypnotic paralysis
Category: Neuroscience
New research shows that hypnosis can control movements by influencing the internal representations of the self generated through suggestion and imagery
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Mental time travel
Category: Neuroscience
A new study shows that remembering the past and imagining future events activate distinct subsystems within a core brain network
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How we feel affects what we see
Category: Neuroscience
Canadian researchers provide the first direct evidence that emotions affect what we see by modulating the activity of the visual cortex
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Confabulatory hypermnesia, or severe false memory syndrome
Category: Neuroscience
What did you do on March 13th, 1985? People with hyperthymesia (which has been characterized only recently, and of which just a handful of cases have so far been reported) would likely provide a vivid account of what happened on...
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Decoding the brain's response to vocal emotions
Category: Neuroscience
Swiss researchers report that they have decoded the patterns of neural activity associated with processing of vocal emotions, and that they can predict from this activity what emotion is being heard
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Music affects how we perceive facial expressions
Category: Neuroscience
A new study shows that the emotions evoked by music can be transferred to the sense of vision to influence the perception of facial expressions
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The waterfall illusion can be transferred between vision and touch
Category: Neuroscience
MIT researchers show that touch modulates vision
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New cells in the adult brain migrate long distances by crawling along blood vessels
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Newborn neurons in the adult brain migrate long distances by crawling along blood vessels
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MicroRNAs regulate adult neurogenesis
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Researchers from Columbia University Medical School have found that adult neurogenesis is regulated by a species of microRNA
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