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Music for the Mind: How Music Nurtures Cognitive Development

February 28, 2019February 27, 2019 Alexandria Weaver 2 Comments auditory, Cognition, cognitive development, Emotion, Emotional Awareness, Learning, Listening, Memory, mood, Music, Musical Therapy, Performance, Therapy, Visuospatial abilities

Imagine listening to your favorite song, how it makes you feel, and the flood of memories the sounds bring with them. Music is well known for its ability to evoke… Read more

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Understanding Noonan Syndrome

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Caitlin Aamodt 0 Comments Brain, bullying, Cell signaling, Charles McDowell, G-protein signaling, Genetics, intellectual disability, kinase, Learning, Long-term potentiation, LTP, Meme, Memory, neurodevelopmental disorer, Neuroscience, noonan syndrome, Novartis, phosphatase, Prison, PTPN11, Ras, Rasopathy

This past November the mug shot of Charles McDowell went viral after viewers noticed that the man in the photo had an unusual phenotype- specifically a larger than average neck.… Read more

Aging Culture Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

Food for Your Brain: Mediterranean Diet May Help Your Neurons Live Longer

November 28, 2018November 27, 2018 Marco Travaglio 0 Comments Aging, Alzeihmer's disease, Brain, dementia, dietary fat, Fat, Food, income, Learning, MeDi, Mediterranean Diet, Memory, Oxidative stress, socioeconomic status

Historians consider it one of the ‘cradles of civilization,’ but for many scientists today the real value of the Mediterranean basin does not lie in its contribution to history. Home… Read more

Artificial Intelligence Learning and Memory Sensation and Perception 

How our Visual Neurons relate to Deep Neural Networks

November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 Ioannis Kalfas 0 Comments AI, convolutional neural network, deep learning, Deep neural network, Electrophysiology, inferotemporal cortex, Learning, Machine Learning, neural network, Perception, regression, visual system

Our brain has been evolving for millions of years, ever-changing and adjusting to handle novel stimuli and conditions, looking like a bag of slimy, gooey matter folded in various ways… Read more

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Neuro Primer: Neurodevelopment

July 13, 2018July 13, 2018 Gabrielle Torre 1 Comment Apoptosis, Axons, Biology, Brain, Brain development, Brain growth, Cell death, Cells, Cortex, Dendrites, Development, Infancy, Knowing Neurons, Learning, neurobiology, Neurodevelopment, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Plasticity, Science, Synapse, Synapses

How does your brain become a brain? Neurodevelopment is the crucial process through which every brain is formed.… Read more

Learning and Memory Neuroscience Technologies 

How Brain Stimulation Can Boost Memory If Paired with Learning

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 Tessa Abagis 2 Comments ADHD, Attention, brain stimulation, Cognitive Enhancement, Learning, Memory, tDCS, Working memory

n 47 CE, Scribonius Largus, court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius, described in his Compositiones a method for treating chronic migraines: place torpedo fish on the scalps of patients… Read more

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Brain Stimulation: A Learning Method for the 21st Century

April 4, 2018April 2, 2018 Amin Kamaleddin 1 Comment Brain, brain stimulation, Consciousness, Decision-making, Free Will, Learning, neuroprosthetics, premotor cortex, stroke

hat is happening in the brain when you decide to reach your hand and grasp a cup of coffee early in the morning? First, the posterior parietal cortex of your… Read more

Consciousness Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person?

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 Yaïr Pinto 3 Comments Consciousness, Gazzaniga, Learning, Memory, Neuroscience, Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Research, Sperry, Split brain

he brain is perhaps the most complex machine in the Universe. It consists of two cerebral hemispheres, each with many different modules. Fortunately, all these separate parts are not autonomous… Read more

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Your gut is closer to your brain than it appears!

October 4, 2017October 3, 2017 Amin Kamaleddin 0 Comments Autoimmune disease, Bacteria, Cell communication, gut microbiome, Immune cells, Learning, Memory, MS, multiple sclerosis, myelin, Pathogens, pathology

ou are more than who you think you are! Yes, that is correct. If you are still thinking of yourself as a single intelligent organism, then think again! I am… Read more

Brain Development Learning and Memory 

How Humans Speak and Mice Learn: The Widespread Effects of FOXP2

August 30, 2017August 29, 2017 Jacob Umans 6 Comments Christiane Schreiweis, declaritive learning, Dopamine, dorsolateral striatum, dorsomedial striatum, FoxP2, language, Learning, long-term depression (LTD), Mice, procedural learning, Protein Kinase C, Speech, Striatum, transcription factor, Urlich Bornschein, vocalization

rom bird songs to frog ribbits, animals engage in countless forms of vocalization. However, no other species in the animal kingdom matches humans in complexity of language. The versatility of… Read more

Brain Basics Learning and Memory 

Learning about Language from Birdsong

August 25, 2017August 24, 2017 Brainfacts.org 3 Comments Basal ganglia, birdsong, brain facts, BrainFacts.org, language, Learning, motor skills, singing, vocal behaviors, Vocal Learning, Zebra Finch

Songbirds are one of the few known species who learn to speak (or sing) like we do. That makes them the perfect case study to learn about the origins of… Read more

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Bite-size science: The brain remembers without staying the same

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber 0 Comments Brain, Fact, Infographic, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Memory, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Research, Science

A new paper published this month in the journal Cell describes an unexpected finding about memory. Researchers used to think that memory required specific activity from the same brain cells… Read more