‘Mini brains’ show human-like activity by Sara Reardon in Nature 22 November 2018
Cortical tissue in a Petri dish makes waves. Scientists have cultured stem cells to form clumps of...
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Category: NEUROSCIENCE ARTICLES
The plant whisperer by Joshua Howgego in NewScientist 24 November 2018
Plants can learn and memorise. Evolutionary ecologist, Monica Gagliano, has managed to demonstrate...
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Beyond fast and slow by Madeleine Finlay in NewScientist 17 November 2018
Critiquing Kahneman’s Thinking, fast and slow. Daniel Kahneman popularised the idea that...
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Thoughts laid bare by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 29 September 2018
Could AI help us discover where consciousness lies in the brain? Some of the world’s big...
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I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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The consciousness wager by Per Snaprud in NewScientist 23 June 2018
Consciousness author tracks down original NCCs bet. Snaprud, who is writing a book on...
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The secret of you by Caroline Williams in NewScientist 7 July 2018
The cerebellum might be the cortex’s workhorse. It turns out that the cerebellum is connected to...
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Bigger brain cells work better by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 5 May 2018
Bigger is better after all. In short, people with bigger, faster neurons have higher IQs, think...
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Wave therapy by Helen Thomson in Nature 1 March 2018
What neuronal oscillations, or brainwaves, do and do not do. Wave therapy is a handy update on the...
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Portrait of a memory by Helen Shen in Nature 11 January 2018
Better technology enables ever more precise analysis of workings of memory. One of the main...
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Brain-computer interfaces, Economist Technology Quarterly 6 January 2018
A timely review of a big growth area. The Economist’s latest Technology Quarterly constitutes a...
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Reality? It’s what you make it by Philip Ball in NewScientist 11 November 2017
Reality – it’s all in your mind. The article describes a new theory that says that there is...
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How our sleeping brain stores away memories by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 7 October 2017
We can now watch the brain store long-term memories. A team at Stanford University has persuaded...
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Throwing shapes by Anil Ananthaswamy in NewScientist 30 September 2017
The Blue Brain Project proposes multi-dimensional neural sub-networks. In 2015, the Blue Brain...
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Child psychology Paradise postponed in The Economist 30 September 2017
Today’s children are better at deferred gratification. The marshmallow test performed in...
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Researchers unite in quest for ‘standard model’ of the brain by Alison Abbott in Nature 21 September 2017
New international research effort homes in on specific behaviours. A new, international...
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Seeing others wash their hands brings OCD relief by Helen Thompson in New Scientist 12 August 2017
Mirror neurons extend to emotion. The mirror neuron system allows OCD sufferers to watch others...
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The brain-circuit challenge by Kerri Smith in Nature 10 August 2017
The connectome continues to baffle. How do fruit-fly maggots make decisions such as scrunch or...
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The point of consciousness by Anil Ananthaswamy in New Scientist 1 July 2017
The article reports on some recent research, described as ‘brilliant’ by another...
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Scientists identify brain processes that are involved in creating and maintaining short-term memories by Laxmi Iyer, Biotechin.Asia, 22 February 17
The brief article refers to recent research by Jan Kaminski et al published in Nature online in...
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