Researchers have found the presence of neurons in the human brain which can each selectively respond to an intermediate color; not just neurons of red, green, yellow and blue.
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Human visual cortex holds neurons that selectively respond to intermediate colors
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Stress causes infants to resort to habits
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Under stress, people are inclined to resort to habits, rather than trying out new things.
Scientists reveal brain network for observed social threat interactions
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Observing one person threatening another is a commonplace event. Now, in research published in eLife, scientists have used large-scale neural recording and big data analysis in monkeys to enable a…
Baylor study: Cellphones can damage romantic relationships, lead to depression
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Cellphone use can undermine the bedrock of our happiness — our relationships with our romantic partners,’ researcher saysResearch from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business confirms…
Study finds that discrimination is linked with worse health among transgender Americans
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Despite a surge in public attention toward the transgender population, transgender adults continue to face both major and daily discrimination that often directly leads to dangerous health…
Identifying youth as ‘at risk’ for mental problems may be less a stigma than the symptoms
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Study suggests benefits of early intervention outweigh stigma of at-risk labelingThere is an emergent and promising field of research on schizophrenia prevention, yet little is known about the…
Brain network for observed social threat interactions revealed
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Observing one person threatening another is a commonplace event. Now, in new research, scientists have used large-scale neural recording and big data analysis in monkeys to enable a first glimpse of the brain remembering and recalling the memory of suc…
Chimpanzee personality linked to anatomy of brain structures, study finds
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Chimpanzees’ personality traits are linked to the anatomy of specific brain structures, according to researchers at Georgia State University, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and…
Scientists control rats’ senses of familiarity, novelty
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Brain scientists didn’t just study how recognition of familiarity and novelty arise in the mammalian brain, they actually took control, inducing rats to behave as if images they’d seen before were new, and images they had never seen were old.
Brain activity map reveals how infant vision develops
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Visual functions start to develop soon after birth and continue maturing over time as infants gain experience with the world. However, direct evidence of how this maturation process unfolds in the brain has been lacking. A new study provides a direct w…
