Perception News
June 28, 2025
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June 25, 2025 — Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. ...
June 24, 2025 — A groundbreaking wireless implant promises real-time, personalized pain relief using AI and ultrasound power no batteries, no wires, and no opioids. Designed by USC and UCLA engineers, it reads brain signals, adapts on the fly, and bends naturally ...
June 21, 2025 — USC researchers have uncovered a hidden driver behind the early and severe onset of Alzheimer's in people with Down syndrome: iron overload in the brain. Their study revealed that individuals with ...
June 18, 2025 — Imagine diagnosing Parkinson s disease not with pricey scans or subjective checklists, but with a simple ear swab. Scientists in China have developed a promising early screening method that detects Parkinson s from subtle changes in the scent of ear ...
June 14, 2025 — Rutgers scientists have uncovered a tug-of-war inside the brain between hunger and satiety, revealing two newly mapped neural circuits that battle over when to eat and when to stop. These findings ...
June 13, 2025 — A protective sugar coating on brain blood vessels, once thought to be insignificant, turns out to play a vital role in preventing cognitive decline. Restoring this layer reversed damage and memory ...
June 12, 2025 — A team of scientists has discovered a direct link between the smell of food and feelings of fullness at least in lean mice. This brain circuit, located in the medial septum and triggered by food odors, helps animals eat less by making them feel ...
June 12, 2025 — A team at UC Davis has made a major leap in neurotechnology, enabling a man with ALS to speak again through a brain-computer interface that converts thoughts into speech in real time. Unlike prior systems that translated neural signals into text, ...
June 11, 2025 — A team of scientists has identified specialized neurons in the brain that store "meal memories" detailed recollections of when and what we eat. These engrams, found in the ventral hippocampus, help ...
June 3, 2025 — Scientists at Tufts have created a powerful 3D model of nasal tissue that reveals surprising new insights into how our sense of smell regenerates and why it sometimes fades. Contrary to past assumptions, a supposedly inactive type of stem cell ...
June 3, 2025 — Your brain doesn t just send messages through one universal route it uses separate pathways for spontaneous activity and signals linked to learning. These findings overturn a major neuroscience assumption and reveal how the brain maintains stability ...
June 3, 2025 — A trial of an interactive game that trains people to alter their brain waves has shown promise as a treatment for nerve pain -- offering hope for a new generation of drug-free ...
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June 23, 2025 — Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a ...
June 18, 2025 — When faced with a tricky maze task involving hidden information, humans instinctively toggle between two clever mental strategies: simplifying in ...
June 16, 2025 — When we focus, switch tasks, or face tough mental challenges, the brain starts to sync its internal rhythms, especially in the midfrontal region. A new study has found that smarter individuals show ...
June 9, 2025 — Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a new algorithm, the Krakencoder, that merges multiple types of brain imaging data to better understand how the brain s wiring underpins behavior, ...
June 2, 2025 — Despite advances in machine vision, processing visual data requires substantial computing resources and energy, limiting deployment in edge devices. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a ...
June 2, 2025 — Listening to sound doesn t just trigger brain activity it reshapes your brain s internal networks in real time. Scientists have unveiled a powerful new imaging method, FREQ-NESS, that traces how ...
May 30, 2025 — Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, ...
May 30, 2025 — A new study suggests that mindfulness training and/or non-invasive brain stimulation could reduce bladder leaks and feelings of urgency in patients with 'latchkey ...
May 30, 2025 — Coffee can help you stay awake. But what does caffeine actually do to your brain once you're asleep? Using AI, a team of researchers has an answer: it affects the brain's ...
May 30, 2025 — Researchers have released the full dataset from the Dallas Lifespan Brain Study, a decade-long project designed to track brain and cognitive health as people age and distinguish neurologically ...
Earlier Headlines
May 29, 2025 — Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric ...
May 28, 2025 — Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners -- like therapy horses who respond to human emotion -- say ...
May 28, 2025 — How do we think, feel, remember, or move? It all depends on transmission of chemical signals in the brain, carried and released by molecular containers called vesicles. In a new study, researchers ...
May 28, 2025 — Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement -- they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. The findings are especially relevant for better understanding ...
May 28, 2025 — Parental warmth and affection in early childhood can have life-long physical and mental health benefits for children, and new research points to an important underlying process: children's sense ...
May 27, 2025 — Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the ...
May 27, 2025 — A team analyzed a range of YouTube videos that focused on learning music by ear and identified four simple ways music learning technology can better aid prospective musicians -- helping people ...
May 27, 2025 — Persons with Parkinson's disease increasingly lose their mobility over time and are eventually unable to walk. Hope for these patients rests on deep brain stimulation, also known as a brain ...
May 27, 2025 — How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientists argue that we should take tickle research more ...
May 22, 2025 — Scientists have developed new tools to improve gene therapy in advanced stages of inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) such as retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital ...
May 22, 2025 — New studies reveal that both the public and healthcare providers often overlook social connection as a key factor in physical health, even though loneliness rivals smoking and obesity in health ...
May 22, 2025 — Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs -- including ChatGPT -- to the test using emotional ...
May 22, 2025 — Researchers have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code that helps determine how brain cells connect, communicate, and function. The discovery not only deepens our ...
May 21, 2025 — The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...
May 21, 2025 — There's good news for people with migraine who take common drugs before or during pregnancy -- a new study found no increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD in their ...
May 21, 2025 — A mechanism involving potassium channels in the brain that control brain cell activity could provide a new and fundamentally different way of treating depression symptoms in adults with major ...
May 21, 2025 — The way people express emotions while helping others can influence whether their assistance is welcomed, resented, or reciprocated, according to new ...
May 21, 2025 — Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated unprecedented rates of recovery for spinal cord injuries. Individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury safely received a combination of stimulation of a nerve in the neck ...
May 20, 2025 — Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Horses 'mane' Inspiration for New Generation of Social Robots
- Vesicle Cycle Model Reveals Inner Workings of Brain Synapse
- A Switchboard With Precision: How the Brain Licenses Movements
- Mother's Warmth in Childhood Influences Teen Health by Shaping Perceptions of Social Safety
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- Overlooked Cells Might Explain the Human Brain's Huge Storage Capacity
- Hitting the Right Notes to Play Music by Ear
- How Brain Stimulation Alleviates Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
- Why After 2000 Years We Still Don't Know How Tickling Works
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- New Tools to Treat Retinal Degenerations at Advanced Stages of Disease
- Social Connection Is Still Underappreciated as a Medically Relevant Health Factor
- Could AI Understand Emotions Better Than We Do?
- Tiny Genetic Switch Found to Control Brain Balance and Behavior
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Are Groovy Brains More Efficient?
- Good News for People With Migraine Who Take Drugs Before or During Pregnancy
- Promising New Way to Modulate Brain Cell Activity to Potentially Treat Major Depressive Disorder in Adults
- Emotional Expressions Shape How Help Is Received in the Workplace
- Scientists Design Gene Delivery Systems for Cells in the Brain and Spinal Cord
- Clinical Trial Shows Improvements for Spinal Cord Injuries
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Relieve Your Pain With a Psychologist or an App
- New Auditory Brainstem Implant Shows Early Promise
- Study Reveals Impacts of Alzheimer's Disease on the Whole Body
- Overlooked Cell Type Orchestrates Brain Rewiring
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Study Reveals a Deep Brain Region That Links the Senses
- Impact of Oft-Overlooked Cell in Brain Function Revealed
- AI Overconfidence Mirrors Human Brain Condition
- Research Reveals Why Next-Generation Engine Noise Grinds Our Gears
- People With Critical Cardiovascular Disease May Benefit from Palliative Care
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Vision Loss, Damage Could Be Tied to Eye Pressure, Study Finds
- Brain Scans Reveal What Happens in the Mind When Insight Strikes
- Energy and Memory: A New Neural Network Paradigm
- The Key to Spotting Dyslexia Early Could Be AI-Powered Handwriting Analysis
- How the Brain Allows Us to Infer Emotions
- Scientists Discover New Way the Brain Learns
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Recognition from Colleagues Helps Employees Cope With Bad Work Experiences
- Mapping a New Brain Network for Naming
- Hormone Cycles Shape the Structure and Function of Key Memory Regions in the Brain
- New Survey Shows Privacy and Safety Tops List of Parental Concerns About Screen Time
Monday, May 12, 2025
- CAR-T Cell Therapy for Cancer Causes 'brain Fog,' Study Shows
- Addressing Hearing Loss May Reduce Isolation Among the Elderly
- ChatGPT Helps Pinpoint Precise Locations of Seizures in the Brain, Aiding Neurosurgeons
- The How and Why of the Brain's Division Across Hemispheres
- Different Anesthetics, Same Result: Unconsciousness by Shifting Brainwave Phase
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- AI Tool Uses Face Photos to Estimate Biological Age and Predict Cancer Outcomes
- Music Therapy Helps Brain-Injured Children
- Is AI Truly Creative? Turns out Creativity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Vitamin Supplements Slow Down the Progression of Glaucoma
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Eating Ultra Processed Foods May Speed Up Early Signs of Parkinson's Disease
- Sleep Apnea During REM Sleep Linked to Memory-Related Brain Changes
- Piecing Together the Brain Puzzle
- Neuroscientists Pinpoint Where (and How) Brain Circuits Are Reshaped as We Learn New Movements
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Study Suggests We Don't Just Hear Music, but 'become It'
- New Chronic Pain Therapy Retrains the Brain to Process Emotions
- Low Blood Sugar Contributes to Eye Damage and Vision Loss in Diabetic Retinopathy; Experimental Drug May Help Treat Condition
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Neighborhood Stress May Impact Kids' Brains -- And Increase Depression Risk
- Children as Young as Five Can Navigate a 'tiny Town'
- PTSD Patients Show Long-Term Benefits With Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- How Is Handedness Linked to Neurological Disorders?
Friday, May 2, 2025
- Decoding the Brainstem: A New Window Into Brain--Body--Mind Interactions
- Our Ability to Recognize Objects Depends on Prior Experience
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- How Is It We Feel a Sense of Agency Over Our Movements?
- A Virtual Reality Game Integrating Smell to Fight Cognitive Decline
- Landmark Experiment Sheds New Light on the Origins of Consciousness
- Mechanism by Which the Brain Weighs Positive Vs. Negative Social Experience Is Revealed
- Mindfulness Therapy Reduces Opioid Craving and Addiction, Study Finds
- 'Explainable' AI Cracks Secret Language of Sticky Proteins
- Machine Learning Brings New Insights to Cell's Role in Addiction, Relapse
- New 'hidden in Plain Sight' Facial and Eye Biomarkers for Tinnitus Severity Could Unlock Path to Testing Treatments
- Nursing 2025: No Relief in Sight as Burnout, Stress and Short Staffing Persist
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Focal Brain Damage Leaves People More Open to Being Influenced by Impulsive Others
- Age, Previous Sports Experience, Stronger Predictors of Performance in Children Than Previous Concussions
- Study Suggests Dance and Lullabies Aren't Universal Human Behaviors
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Low Iron Could Cause Brain Fog During Menopause Transition
- Trouble Hearing in Noisy Places and Crowded Spaces? Researchers Say New Algorithm Could Help Hearing Aid Users
- Dopamine Signals When a Fear Can Be Forgotten
- Brain Decoder Controls Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Move More, Think Sharper
Friday, April 25, 2025
- In Down Syndrome Mice, 40Hz Light and Sound Improve Cognition, Neurogenesis, Connectivity
- Compelling New Insights Into Dynamics of the Brain's Serotonin System
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Awkward. Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Reading the Room
- What Happens in the Brain When Your Mind Blanks
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Scientists Trick the Eye Into Seeing New Color 'olo'
- By 15 Months, Infants Begin to Learn New Words for Objects, Even Those They've Never Seen
- Empathy Might Be Retained in Alzheimer's Disease
- Remembering the Cold: Scientists Discover How Memories Control Metabolism
- Family Dynamics Shape Body Image Differently Across Cultures
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Brain-Inspired AI Breakthrough: Making Computers See More Like Humans
- Retinal Clues to Mental Health
- Adolescents Who Sleep Longer Perform Better at Cognitive Tasks
- Listeners Use Gestures to Predict Upcoming Words
Monday, April 21, 2025
- Novel Treatment Approach for Language Disorder Shows Promise
- Watching Our Brains Remember Multiple Things at Once
- In Kids, EEG Monitoring of Consciousness Safely Reduces Anesthetic Use
- Building 'cellular Bridges' For Spinal Cord Repair After Injury
- Engineered Microglia Show Promise for Treating Alzheimer's and Other Brain Diseases
- High-Tech Sticker Can Identify Real Human Emotions