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Brain’s ‘circuit breakers’: How your mind blocks out distractions
Discover how your mind filters out distractions. New research reveals the specialized neural mechanisms that actively block ...
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The 30 seconds that changed Kate Walsh’s career (& life).
When Kate Walsh was wheeled into brain surgery in 2015, she had no idea if she'd wake up again. Suddenly, after playing a doctor on our TV screen for years, the Grey's Anatomy star found herself ...
Study sheds light on how the brain differentiates new stimuli from old ones
The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage ...
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High-tech video optimization in our brain
Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...