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Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas

By Philip Ball
March 6, 2019
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To make headway on the mystery of consciousness, some researchers are trying a rigorous new way to test competing theories.

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You Are Getting Sleepy — Tagged Proteins May Point to Why

By Veronique Greenwood
August 21, 2018
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The identification of SNIPPs, a set of proteins found primarily at the brain’s synapses, brings science closer to understanding why we need to sleep.

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‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime

By Raleigh McElvery
August 16, 2018
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A unique neurological “functional fingerprint” allows scientists to explore the influence of genetics, environment and aging on brain connectivity.

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To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget

By Dalmeet Singh Chawla
July 24, 2018
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Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, suggesting that forgetting may be the default mode of the brain.

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To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future

By Jordana Cepelewicz
July 10, 2018
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A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.

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Her Key to Modeling Brains: Ignore the Right Details

By Siobhan Roberts
June 19, 2018
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Being able to think like a physicist helps Carina Curto, a mathematician-turned-neuroscientist, pull insights about the human brain out of theoretical models.

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Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point

By Jennifer Ouellette
June 14, 2018
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In a renewed attempt at a grand unified theory of brain function, physicists now argue that brains optimize performance by staying near — though not exactly at — the critical point between two phases.

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How Brain Waves Surf Sound Waves to Process Speech

By John Rennie
May 22, 2018
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By paying more attention to behaviors, and not just the activity of neurons, two researchers critical of most neuroscience learned how brains make sense of spoken language.

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New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience

By Monique Brouillette
April 4, 2018
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A technique based on genetic bar codes can easily map the connections of individual brain cells in unprecedented numbers. Unexpected complexity in the visual system is only the first secret it has revealed.


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