Circuit Found for Brain’s Statistical Inference About Motion Brain’s equation for prediction looks like a Bayesian inference As the eye tracks a bird flying past, the muscles that pan the eyeballs to keep the target in...
Eyes Have a Natural Version of Night Vision Cells in retina change their duties to help the brain detect motion To see under starlight and moonlight, the retina of the eye changes both the software and...
LaBar Named Associate Director of Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Kevin S. LaBar, professor of psychology...
Regeneration Next: New Research on Regrowing Brain and Nerve Tissue Duke researchers in the Regeneration Next Initiative discuss their work on re-growing tissues in...
Adcock to Direct Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Long-time CCN faculty member brings research, education, community-building expertise
Neurons Can Carry More Than One Signal at a Time Study sheds light on how the brain encodes complex information Back in the early days of telecommunications, engineers devised a clever way to send multiple...
Mobile App for Autism Screening Yields Useful Data Pilot study finds app easy to use, liked by parents DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke study of an iPhone app to screen young children for signs of autism has...
What's Duke Doing to Better Understand and Treat Brain Diseases? Dean Mary Klotman on making progress on devastating diseases
NC's Opioid Problems Growing, Moving Underground Bass Connections research indicates increase is largely driven by a growth of illicit heroin use North Carolina experienced an 800 percent increase in opioid drug deaths from 1999 to 2016,...
Breakdown of Brain’s Visual Networks Linked to Mental Illness Poor communication between brain regions responsible for understanding what we see may increase risk of mental illness DURHAM, N.C. -- Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And like in...
