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Inhibitory Neurons: Keeping the Brain’s Traffic in Check
WEBNov 5, 2014 · For traffic to go smoothly in all directions, we have stop signs, red lights, speed bumps and police cars to make sure no accidents occur. In much the same way, our brain has a mechanism to keep the excitation in check. Information in the brain flows via excitatory neurons that have properties depending on their anatomical location.
Can Neuroscience Explain the Mandela Effect? - Knowing Neurons
WEBFeb 1, 2017 · In light of known cognitive phenomena that can give rise to shared false memories, it’s highly unlikely that some of us are actually from an alternative past universe that crossed timelines with the present one. Nonetheless, the Mandela effect is still a fascinating case study in the quirks of human memory.
The emergence of a hive mind: Should we worry? - Knowing …
WEBJan 31, 2018 · The emergence of a hive mind: Should we worry? [dropcap]T [/dropcap]he term “hive mind” refers to the apparent intelligence that emerges at the group level in some social species, particularly insects like honeybees and ants. An individual honeybee might not be very bright (although that’s debatable), but the honeybee colony as a ...
The Brain’s Building Blocks: Of Protons and Voxels
WEBSep 27, 2017 · Developing or diseased, the brain, like all other living matter, is composed of nature’s most basic building blocks. Of these blocks, protons are uniquely important for MRI. Though many a neuroscience finding has relied upon the generation of bright, beautiful brain scans, we less often discuss how scans result from …
This Is Your Brain on Twitter: The Neuroscience of Social Media
WEBJun 15, 2022 · Easy access to multiple streams of information and an online social world that offers an alternative to the “real world” has introduced the possibility for social media to impact our cognitive processes in “unforeseen ways” (Firth 2019). Social media relies on the brain’s propensity to endorse prior beliefs to keep us engaged online.
52 Brain Facts - Knowing Neurons
WEB52 Brain Facts. Your brain is very complicated and fascinating! Every week for one year we posted a new and interesting fact about that 3 lb organ in your skull and other parts of the nervous system. Share these 52 Brain Facts with your friends and spread the knowledge! Check out our infographics in Spanish, German, and Turkish while you’re here!
How Binaural Beats Affect Your Brain – and How They Don’t
WEBDec 21, 2017 · These binaural beats have been peddled as “digital drugs”, producing all sorts of effects from improving sleep to enhancing your memory.
Hubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception
WEBOct 29, 2014 · The classic experiments by Hubel and Wiesel are fundamental to our understanding of how neurons along the visual pathway extract increasingly complex information from the pattern of light cast on the retina to construct an image. For one, they showed that there is a topographical map in the visual …
How Weight Lifting Gets the Brain in Shape - Knowing Neurons
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Weight trainers often espouse the “mind-muscle connection”. But what actually happens to the brain during strength training? Surprisingly, even a few weeks of weight training alter the nervous system, and long-term lifting can result in cognitive and neurological benefits. A recent primate study in The Journal of Neuroscience showed that neurological changes produced by strength training ...