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Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (2019)

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Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain’s reward circuits

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Humans retain ‘ancestral’ understanding of ape gestures, study says

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Crows found to be smarter than we think

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Why you can’t tickle yourself

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Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism (2018)

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The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses

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Research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention

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Crows possess higher intelligence, thought a primarily human attribute (2020)

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In birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech

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The brain’s reading of the body’s state is key to mental health

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Crows are self-aware just like us, says new study (2020)

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To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions

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The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses

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Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues

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Why do placebos work? Scientists identify key brain pathway

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How the brain navigates cities

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Psychonetics: A nerd's toolset to work with mind and perception

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

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Man can change his pupil size on command

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Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born

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Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's

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Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature

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Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds

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Is autism the legacy of humans evolving the ability to innovate?

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Kea parrots perform domain-general statistical inference

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Hungry men exposed to blue light are sensitive to Earth's magnetic field (2019)

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Autism and Invention Are Connected

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The science of addiction: Do you always like the things you want?

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Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

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The Influence of Breathing on the Central Nervous System

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Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

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Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute

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How the heart influences what we perceive and fear

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Dogs' Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them (2019)

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Blind people ‘read’ letters that are traced on their brains with electricity

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Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents

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Babies are pre-wired to perceive the world

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How we pay attention changes the shape of our brains

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Rat had 'no brain' and somehow lived a normal life

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A surprising new source of attention in the brain

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Proprioception: The Silent “Sixth” Sense

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Benjamin Libet's argument against free will is being questioned

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Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars

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Scientists implant "memories" into bird brains to teach them songs

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Great apes appear to have “theory of mind”

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Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind

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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight

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Shared Emotional States in Ravens

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Chicken Hypnotism

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Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (2013)

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Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

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Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next

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The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (2017)

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Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'

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Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans

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How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning

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Science Denial Won’t End Sexism

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Unconscious brain activity predicts decisions 11 seconds before action

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Implicit model of other people’s visual attention as an invisible beam

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Why Exaggeration Jokes Work

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A ‘Self-Aware’ Fish Raises Doubts About a Cognitive Test

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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say researchers

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For back pain, the subtle moves of the Feldenkrais Method can help some people

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Sex Differences in Visual Motion Processing

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A Mathematical Theory for Why People Hallucinate

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Why athletes need a ‘quiet eye’

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The Neuroscience of Pain

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MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

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Decisions can be tough when you have chronic pain

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What is empathy?

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Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain

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Origins of the myth of dopamine as the ‘pleasure chemical’

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How autism may stem from problems with prediction

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The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind

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Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited

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Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains

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Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in the eyes

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The cognitive differences between men and women

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Ravens attribute visual access to unseen competitors

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Over time, leaders lose mental capacities

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New paint colors invented by neural network

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Dopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time

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Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by making processing inhibitory-dominant

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Lasers activate killer instinct in mice

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Amphetamine boosts rats’ recovery from brain injuries

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The link between language and cognition is a red herring

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Ravens score just as high as big-brained chimps on cognitive tests

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How Animals Think

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Acetaminophen may hinder the brain's error-correction mechanisms

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Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow

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Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive

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Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelevant sensory information

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How Your Brain Decides Without You (2014)

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Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation

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Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a “second sight”

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Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (2012)

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Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction

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Creative Genius Driven by Distraction

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How the Brain Uses Glucose to Fuel Self-Control

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What People Cured of Blindness See

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Inside the adult ADHD brain

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Brain scans link concern for justice with reason, not emotion

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This App Trains You to See Farther

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Xenopsychology

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Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities Beyond Normal Limits

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Fake memory implanted in mice with a beam of light

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Attention control is critical for changing/increasing/altering motivation

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Scientists demonstrate Matrix-like learning with no conscious effort

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Building a Thinking Room

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Scientists Settle centuries-old debate on perception

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Tetris effect

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Rats have an imagination, new research suggests

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What happens in the brain while daydreaming?

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Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features

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On Proprioception, the Sixth Sense of Storytelling (2022)

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How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background

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Hallucination is inevitable: An innate limitation of large language models

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NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated with ADHD in Youth

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Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills

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Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, and They May Be as Smart as Gorillas

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Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]

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When eyesight fades and climbing provides comfort

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Crows are even smarter than we thought

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