Neural Inhibition Helps Spiking Brain Models Choose Like Humans Do
Adding biologically grounded inhibitory connections to a spiking neural network model of decision making improved its ability to predict human ...
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Zapping the Ear to Boost the Brain: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Shows Glimmer of Cognitive Gains
A new trial suggests that stimulating the vagus nerve through the ear may sharpen performance on adaptive cognitive training and ...
How a Five-Second Flash of Light Could Help Screen Toddlers for Autism
A pilot study found that children with autism show a significantly stronger pupillary constriction to light than typically developing peers, ...
Your Pupils May Reveal How the Brain Decides What to Remember, New Framework Suggests
A new theoretical framework proposes that pupil dynamics measured non-invasively can serve as a systems-level biomarker linking dopamine and norepinephrine ...
Your Heartbeat May Set the Gain on Consciousness, New Theory Proposes
A new theoretical framework proposes that heart rate variability-indexed autonomic coherence acts as a gain parameter governing the nested temporal ...
Silent Speech Runs the Brain’s Arousal System on Low Power, Pupil Study Reveals
New pupillometry experiments show that silent inner speech produces lower and sometimes opposite pupil-linked brain arousal compared with speaking aloud, ...
Trouble Waking Up May Signal Slower Thinking in Older Adults, Study Finds
A study of 461 older adults in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort found that more severe sleep inertia was associated with ...
Arousal Does Not Enhance the Dominant Spatial Scope of Attention, Study Finds
A new psychophysics study reports strong Bayesian evidence that tonic arousal does not amplify the dominant narrow or broad spatial ...
APOE and neuromelanin shape Alzheimer’s risk in human brain’s stress hub
Deep in the brainstem, a tiny, pigment-darkened cluster of neurons called the locus coeruleus acts as the brain's principal source ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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