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Your expectations shape and quicken your perceptions. A new model that explains how that happens also suggests it’s time to update theories about sensory perception and decision making.
To make headway on the mystery of consciousness, some researchers are trying a rigorous new way to test competing theories.
Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.
Studying the structure of existing friendships in your community can help you forge the best connections when forming a new circle of friends.
Researchers find that when working memory gets overburdened, dialogue between three brain regions breaks down. The discovery provides new support for a larger concept about how the brain works.
A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science.
Three computer scientists have solved a problem central to a dozen far-flung mathematical fields.
By examining regions shared between some of nature’s most variable genes, malaria researchers are piecing together an understanding of a deadly parasite.
Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.