Perception News
May 7, 2024
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May 2, 2024 Neuroscientists have artificially increased neuronal activity in part of the brain by briefly shining light on genetically modified neurons. They saw that this manipulation selectively enhanced performance in non-human primates performing a visual ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they knew how to perform well. With a simple ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the average of previous observations. Their findings may hint at ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Normally, a person's pupils naturally widen (or dilate) in low-light environments to allow more light into the eye. However, in a new study, researchers reported that a person's pupils also dilate when they are concentrating on tasks. In particular, ...
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Apr. 26, 2024 Research shows that a certain kind of visual illusion, neon color spreading, works on mice. The study is also the first to combine the use of two investigative techniques called electrophysiology and ...
Apr. 23, 2024 Bursts of brain rhythms with 'beta' frequencies control where and when neurons in the cortex process sensory information and plan responses. Studying these bursts would improve understanding of ...
Apr. 18, 2024 A sensitive perception of the environment is crucial for guiding our behavior. However, an overly sensitive response of the brain's neural circuits to stimuli can lead to neurodevelopmental disorders ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Using adaptive optics, scientists have identified elusive retinal ganglion cells in the eye's fovea that could explain how humans see red, green, blue, and ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Thought emerges and is controlled in the brain via the rhythmically and spatially coordinated activity of millions of neurons, scientists argue in a ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding number sense in animals by confirming the existence of discrete number sense in rats, offering a crucial animal model for investigating the ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of ...
Apr. 5, 2024 The sense of smell is highly influenced by the cues from other senses, while the sense of sight and hearing are affected to a much lesser extent, shows a new ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Music holds an important place in human culture, and we've all felt the swell of emotion that music can inspire unlike almost anything else. But what ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...
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May 2, 2024 Scented products with relevant images on their packaging and branding, such as flowers or fruit, are more attractive to potential customers and score better in produce evaluations, new research ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Study reveals that newly hatched chicks can instantly recognize objects with their vision, even if they've only ever experienced them by ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Researchers use neural networks to study proprioception, the sense the brain uses to 'know' the body's movement and ...
Apr. 1, 2024 Using a blink-and-you'll-miss-it experiment, researchers have discovered that individuals differ widely in the rate at which they perceive visual signals. Some people perceive a rapidly changing ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Umwelt is a new a system that enables blind and low-vision users to author accessible, interactive charts representing data in three modalities: visualization, textual description, and ...
Mar. 27, 2024 People who can't visualize an image in their mind's eye are less likely to remember the details of important past personal events or to recognize faces, according to a review of nearly ten ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, for those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), which causes facial features to appear distorted, ...
Mar. 19, 2024 A new study in people undergoing surgery to treat seizures related to epilepsy shows that pauses in speech reveal information about how people's brains plan and produce ...
Mar. 19, 2024 A new study shows how neurochemicals can influence blood vessels. The findings may change how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Polyphenols, abundant in fruits, vegetables, tea, and coffee, offer potential health benefits. However, owing to low bioavailability, the mechanisms underlying their beneficial effects remain ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Most babies begin recognizing themselves in mirrors when they are about a-year-and-a-half old. This kind of self-recognition is an important developmental milestone, and now scientists have ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Researchers investigating how exactly the brain processes the incoming stream of information from the heart and lungs, discovered that specific neurons in the thalamus are actively involved in ...
Mar. 11, 2024 More than a third of people who self-identify as having a smell disorder have had at least one gas safety scare in the last five years, according to new ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Researchers have investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and ...
Mar. 8, 2024 Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It's a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Researchers discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. This circuit is under control of a brainstem ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Scientists have found our visual perception dips as our feet hit the ground. Further understanding this could help develop early diagnostics for neuromuscular or psychiatric illness; understand ...
Mar. 6, 2024 A noninvasive treatment may help to counter 'chemo brain' impairment often seen in chemotherapy patients: Exposure to light and sound with a frequency of 40 hertz protected brain cells from ...
Mar. 6, 2024 According to a new study, there is mounting evidence that nature can help humans address the time pressure of contemporary urban lifestyles by contributing to the regulation of human sense of time. A ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Axons that are regularly stimulated do not pass on increases in performance to their neighbors, study on mice ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- New Software Enables Blind and Low-Vision Users to Create Interactive, Accessible Charts
- A Decade of Aphantasia Research: What We've Learned About People Who Can't Visualize
Friday, March 22, 2024
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
- Brain Recordings in People Before Surgery Reveal How All Minds Plan What to Say Prior to Speaking
- How Neurochemicals Affect fMRI Readings
Monday, March 18, 2024
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Monday, March 11, 2024
- Dangers of Smell Impairment Highlighted in New Research
- Shared Blueprint in Brain Development Across Different Functional Areas
Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- How the Brain Coordinates Speaking and Breathing
- Foot-Eye Coordination: How Our Vision Changes in Rhythm With Our Walking
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- A Noninvasive Treatment for 'chemo Brain'
- Gaining Time in Nature -- Nature Experiences May Hold the Key to a Healthier Relationship With Time
- Hearing Study: Each Nerve Fiber Trains on It's Own
- Older Adults Want to Express Themselves With Emojis, They Just Don't Understand How to
- Factors Associated With Age-Related Hearing Loss Differ Between Males and Females
Monday, March 4, 2024
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Monday, February 26, 2024
- Live Music Emotionally Moves Us More Than Streamed Music
- Can They Hear You Now? Kids Increasingly Exposed to Noise Health Risks Via Earbuds and Headphones
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Friday, February 23, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Real-Time Wearable Human Emotion Recognition Technology Developed
- Researchers Use Deep Brain Stimulation to Map Therapeutic Targets for Four Brain Disorders
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- If Your TV Spoke to You, Would You Buy It? Study Finds People Spend More on Some 'talking Products'
- Smiling Is the Secret to Seeing Happiness, New Research Reveals
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- The Brain Processes Speech and Its Echo Separately
- Helping Caregivers Help People With Dementia Eat at Home
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Live from the Brain: Visual Cues Inform Decision to Cooperate
- New Algorithm Disentangles Intrinsic Brain Patterns from Sensory Inputs
Monday, February 12, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- How Emotions Affect Word Retrieval in People With Aphasia
- Low Voice Pitch Increases Standing Among Strangers
Monday, February 5, 2024
- The Influence of the Cellular Environment on Vision
- Scientist Shows Focused Ultrasound Can Reach Deep Into the Brain to Relieve Pain
Thursday, February 1, 2024
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- Surprise! -- How the Brain Learns to Deal With the Unexpected
- Chronic Childhood Ear Infections Delay Language Development
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Friday, December 22, 2023
Thursday, December 21, 2023
- A Trillion Scents, One Nose
- Evidence Early, but Emerging, That Gamma Rhythm Stimulation Can Treat Neurological Disorders
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
- Deep Neural Networks Show Promise as Models of Human Hearing
- Machine Learning Sees Into the Future to Prevent Sight Loss in Humans
- The Pedigree of Brain Cells
Monday, December 11, 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Scientists Use A.I.-Generated Images to Map Visual Functions in the Brain
- Loss of Auditory Nerve Fibers Uncovered in Individuals With Tinnitus
- Lost Brain Function Restored in Mice After Stroke
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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Monday, November 27, 2023
- Defending Your Voice Against Deepfakes
- Researchers Find Neurons Work as a Team to Process Social Interactions
- Genes Influence Whether Infants Prefer to Look at Faces or Non-Social Objects
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
- Researchers Pinpoint Brain Area Where People Who Are Blind Recognize Faces Identified by Sound
- Your Eyes Talk to Your Ears. Scientists Know What They're Saying
- From the First Bite, Our Sense of Taste Helps Pace Our Eating
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
- Our Brains Are Not Able to 'rewire' Themselves, Despite What Most Scientists Believe, New Study Argues
- Babies as Young as Four Months Show Signs of Self-Awareness
- Hearing Loss Is Associated With Subtle Changes in the Brain
- Researchers Help Unravel Brain Processes Involved in Vision
Monday, November 20, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- When We Feel Things That Are Not There
- When We See What Others Do, Our Brain Sees Not What We See, but What We Expect
Monday, November 13, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- New AI Noise-Canceling Headphone Technology Lets Wearers Pick Which Sounds They Hear
- Human Brain Takes Stock of Blame
Monday, November 6, 2023
- Brain Implant May Enable Communication from Thoughts Alone
- Research Team Discovers New Role of Cerebellum in Coordinating the Brain Network Essential for Social Recognition Memory