Category: Brain
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Blind brain. Seeing everything.
Researchers observed slow spontaneous fluctuations in the brain's visual centers that preceded visual hallucinations in blind people. (1) Weird. Even blind people see. At the end, what might be missing is what we all crave for: Not seeing anything... Detached from the cosmos... Only then we might see things that we do not see... And…
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Time & Place…
Two new studies shed new light on how the brain encodes time and place into memories. The findings not only add to the body of fundamental research on memory, but could eventually provide the basis for new treatments to combat memory loss from conditions such as traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer's disease. (1) Take my…
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Think stupid! (The foundation of thinking)
The brain detects 3D shape fragments (bumps, hollows, shafts, spheres) in the beginning stages of object vision - a newly discovered strategy of natural intelligence that researchers also found in artificial intelligence networks trained to recognize visual objects. (1) Artificial intelligence. Natural intelligence. What difference could they have? You see, the main characteristic of intelligence…
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Prison. Happy faces. Memories.
Weighted blankets are a safe and effective intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to researchers who found that insomnia patients with psychiatric disorders experienced reduced insomnia severity, improved sleep and less daytime sleepiness when sleeping with a weighted chain blanket. (1) Encaged into this cosmos. Surrounded by memories. Enclosed into experience. We like our…
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Observe.
A new device enables researchers to observe hundreds of neurons in the brain in real-time. The system is based on modified silicon chips from cameras, but rather than taking a picture, it takes a movie of the neural electrical activity. (1) Once a man tried to observe the cosmos. And he cannot stop ever since.…
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