Severity Of Crime Increases Jury’s Belief In Guilt Evidence matters more to lawyers and judges than to jurors The more severe a crime, the more evidence you should have to prove someone did it. But a new...
Pupil's Brain Recognizes the Perfect Teacher Social brain lights up in juvenile songbirds that find a singing mentor Youngsters learn many important behaviors by imitating adults. But young learners are selective...
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...
Fine-Tuned Sense Of Smell Relies On Timing First impressions matter for precise scent identification If you can tell the difference between a merlot and a cabernet franc just by smell, it’s...
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...
Brain Has Natural Noise-Cancelling Circuit Motor cortex tells auditory cortex to ignore walking sounds To ensure that a mouse hears the sounds of an approaching cat better than it hears the sounds...
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...
Brain Cell’s Achilles’ Heel May Prompt Hydrocephalus Viruses can exploit a suprising weakness of cells that circulate fluid in the brain Viruses may spark hydrocephalus by exploiting a surprising weakness of cells that circulate...
Monkeys' Brains Synchronize As They Collaborate To Perform A Motor Task Levels of synchronicity in motor cortex are influenced by proximity, social status
