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Inhibitory Neurons: Keeping the Brain’s Traffic in Check
Imagine that you’re driving down a road undeterred, no red lights or stop signs to slow you down. While that may seem like a very exciting idea, it is obviously very dangerous, since our roads are not...
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Scale Invariance: A Cautionary Tale Against Reductionism
How long is the coast of Britain? It doesn’t matter how good your geography is — the answer depends on the size of your measuring stick. The coast of Britain has twists and turns at all spatial...
View ArticleHubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception
Snap! Crackle! Pop! Those are the sounds that Professors David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel heard in the early 1950s when they recorded from neurons in the visual cortex of a cat, as they moved a bright...
View ArticleThe Fugue of Life: Why Complexity Matters in Physiology and Neuroscience
People like simplicity. Each decade, corporate logos grow progressively minimalistic, pop songs use ever simpler melodies, and visual art embraces simpler compositions, as Monet gives way to Picasso...
View ArticleMyth or Fact? The brain is the fattest organ in the body.
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View ArticleThis is Your Brain on Music
~ Which of these facts about your brain on music surprised you? 1. Music affects how we perceive things. 2. Listening to Mozart does not make you smarter. 3. Learning to play a musical instrument can...
View ArticleDigging Out the “Earworms:” Involuntary Musical Imagery Correlates with...
You don’t know you know this song, but you definitely know this song: “Hey Mickey you’re so fine, you’re so fine you…” Did the end of the lyric materialize in your mind, complete with musical...
View ArticleHow Do We Know? The Value of Scientific Models.
Last month, astronomers announced the prediction of a new giant planet in our solar system dubbed Planet IX, a genuine ninth planet with ten times the mass of Earth. The announcement lead to some...
View ArticleMyth or Fact? Many psychopaths have a poor sense of smell.
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View ArticleWhy Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive
Over the past few decades, the neurochemical dopamine has earned the reputation of being the brain’s reward molecule. This image is built on observations that when animals and humans experience surges...
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