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The brain, neural systems and cognitive neuroscience.

ai brain connectivity research3 weeks ago3 min

Rethinking the Mind: How Dual Neural Lineages Shape AI Impact on Human Psychology

Explore how recent discoveries of dual brain development lineages reshape our understanding of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and human psychology.

comparative sensory neuroscience3 weeks ago6 min

Neuroscience - Wikipedia Meets the Pufferfish: How a Single Latch Rewired Taste

The first 3D crystal structure of a pufferfish umami receptor reveals a molecular latch that lets one protein taste both sweet and savory — a finding with real implications for flavor science and sensory evolution.

cursive education writing neuroscience3 weeks ago5 min

Your Pen Outperforms Your Tablet: The Neuroscience Behind Paper's Memory Edge

A University of Tokyo EEG study reveals that handwriting on paper produces measurably stronger brain activation during recall compared to digital note-taking — and does so faster.

ai rodent neuroethology3 weeks ago5 min

The AI Impact on Human Psychology Starts Inside a Fruit Fly's Brain

YORU recognizes whole-animal behavior in crowded social scenes and can trigger precise optogenetic interventions. The work offers a research method—not proof that AI understands human psychology.

evolutionary neuroscience brain atlas research3 weeks ago5 min

Precision Blueprint: Nature Neuroscience Mapping Unlocks 16 Subregions in the Mouse Motor Cortex

A Nature Neuroscience–style coverage of a new atlas that redraws the mouse motor cortex into 16 projection-defined modules, with implications for motor control, ALS, and FTD research.

connectomics neuroimaging3 weeks ago5 min

Decoding the Fly Brain: Inside the First Complete Wiring Diagram of 166,000 Neurons

Explore the complete adult fruit fly central nervous system connectome published in Cell by researchers from HHMI Janelia, Cambridge, and Google Research. Spanning 166,700 neurons and 500 million synapses, this landmark map reveals sexual dimorphism, sensory-to-motor pathways, and opens the door to vertebrate brain mapping.

ai childhood development3 weeks ago3 min

Mapping Infant Agency Through Neuroscience Mental Health Research

A comprehensive neuroscience and developmental research article exploring how 3D motion capture and coordination dynamics reveal the birth of infant agency.

the great inversion technology reshaping human biology3 weeks ago3 min

The AI Impact on Human Psychology: Evolutionary Shifts in the Age of Algorithms

New research reframes artificial intelligence not as a sci-fi threat but as an incremental evolutionary pressure reshaping attention, memory, and emotional regulation — with measurable neurological consequences already underway.

neuroscience brain circuits3 weeks ago4 min

Decoding How Brain Circuits Control Behavior: Human Organoids Are Rewiring Mouse Brains

Stanford researchers grew human cortical organoids inside mice born without most of their own cerebral cortex. The grafts wired into host circuits, drove motor behavior, and opened new paths for modeling neurological disease.

neuroscience of language bilingualism3 weeks ago4 min

AI in Mental Health Care Meets the Hidden Neural Circuits of Profanity

Swear words bypass ordinary language pathways and tap directly into emotional circuits—insights that could reshape therapeutic approaches and the emerging landscape of AI in mental health care.

cognitive science learning3 weeks ago5 min

Cognitive Psychology: The Science of How We Think Is Finally Making Language Learning Stick

How the shift from Rosetta Stone-era software to gamified apps and live-video platforms reflects what cognitive psychology has known about memory, motivation, and the social brain all along.

neuroscience neurological disorders3 weeks ago3 min

Unlocking the Inflexible Math Brain: Brain Network Alterations and AI in Mental Health Care Innovations

Stanford University neuroimaging research reveals that developmental dyscalculia is rooted in cognitive control circuit alterations that impair math strategy switching, offering new insights for AI in mental health care and neurodevelopmental diagnostics.