A stylized image based on the average of many MRI scans of a typically younger-looking brain (left) and typically older-looking brain (right). Image credit – photo illustration: Dan Vahaba/Duke University; images from Annchen Knodt/Duke University (brain); Vilar Rodrigo/Wikimedia (dense city photograph); and IDuke/Wikimedia (aerial neighborhood photograph).
Brain scans from 4,215 adults revealed that people with PTSD had smaller cerebellums, especially those with more severe symptoms. (Credit: Dan Vahaba/Duke University)
Participants tracked a green dot on a screen while researchers listened to the sounds made in their ear canals using microphone-embedded earbuds (Meredith Schmehl/Duke University).
A device no bigger than a postage stamp (dotted portion within white band) packs 128 microscopic sensors that can translate brain cell activity into what someone intends to say (photograph by Dan Vahaba/Duke University).
People watching videos of slowly unfolding line-drawings opted to wait for the image to eventually be revealed, but only when they reported being curious about the outcome. Less curious people skipped ahead to see the answer sooner.
When forced to choose whether a racially ambiguous face is Black or White, kids and their parents pick a race different from their own (image from Pexels/Kampus Production).
Speech-language pathologist Jamila Minga (third from left in back, black dress) poses with right hemisphere stroke patients and others at the premiere of a documentary about their condition.