NT/ A brain network supporting social influences in human decision-makingNeuroscience biweekly vol. 13, 7th August - 21st August
TL;DR- Neuroscientists delineated social decision-making in the human brain. These findings suggest that two unique types of learning signals are computed in distinct but interacting regions in the human brain.
- Researchers demonstrated how a deep learning framework they call 'Brain-NET' can accurately predict a person's level of expertise in terms of their surgical motor skills, based solely on neuroimaging data.
- The neurons of layer 6 - the deepest layer of the cortex - were examined by researchers to uncover how they react to sensory stimulation in different behavioral states.
- New research from the TABLET project recruited 12-month-old infants who had different levels of touchscreen usage.
- A newly developed treatment that increases the speed of nerve regeneration by three to five times could lead to much better outcomes for trauma surgery patients.
- Experts estimate up to one third of people attending specialist memory clinics in the UK could have a condition that is commonly mistaken for early dementia.
- A new mechanism of blood redistribution that is essential for the proper functioning of the adult retina has just been discovered in vivo.
- New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new language.
- Transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to six times more likely as cisgender adults (individuals whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth) to be diagnosed as autistic, according to a new study by scientists at the University of Cambridge's Autism Research Centre.
- Our mouths may be home to a newly discovered set of multi-tasking taste cells that - unlike most known taste cells, which detect individual tastes - are capable of detecting sour, sweet, bitter and umami stimuli.
- Imagine if every time you looked at a face, one side of the face always appeared distorted as if it were melting, resembling a painting by Salvador Dalí. This is the case for people with hemi-prosopometamophosia (hemi-PMO). A new study finds that people with hemi-PMO see distortions to the same half of a person's face regardless of how it is viewed. The results show how the the brain uses a process similar to computer face recognition systems to perceive faces.
- To understand language, we have to remember the words that were uttered and combine them into an interpretation. How does the brain retain information long enough to accomplish this, despite the fact that neuronal firing events are very short-lived? - Researchers propose a neurobiological explanation bridging this discrepancy. Neurons change their spike rate based on experience and this adaptation provides memory for sentence processing.
- Adopting a third-person, observer point of view when recalling your past activates different parts of your brain than recalling a memory seen through your own eyes, according to a new article.
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