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Exploring the frontiers of the mind, from the latest in neuroscience to the enduring questions of consciousness.
The excuse that lets brainwashed characters off the hook turns out to cover your last purchase, your last breakup, and the ad that found you. #philosophy #freewill dailyneuron.com/manipulation...
The Excuse We Make for Brainwashed Characters Now Covers Everyone Online - Daily Neuron
The excuse that lets brainwashed characters off the hook turns out to cover your last purchase, your last breakup, and the ad that found you.
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Ask when something happened and the mind starts at now, running backward. Twenty-six people in VR headsets showed how fast that rewind goes. #cogsci dailyneuron.com/backward-sca...
Your Memory Searches the Past in Reverse - Daily Neuron
Ask when something happened and the mind starts at now, running backward. Twenty-six people in VR headsets showed how fast that rewind goes.
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Freud's sealed-off unconscious can't explain how repression picks its targets. A phrase he used fewer than ten times quietly fixes the problem. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/freud-endops...
Your Mind Has to Know the Secret It Keeps From Itself - Daily Neuron
Freud's sealed-off unconscious can't explain how repression picks its targets. A phrase he used fewer than ten times quietly fixes the problem.
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A man in a vegetative state got electrodes on his spine, far below the damaged brain. His limbs loosened and his awareness came back. Both at once. #neuroscience #consciousness dailyneuron.com/spinal-cord-...
Consciousness and Movement Share a Wire, and It Runs Down the Spine - Daily Neuron
A man in a vegetative state got electrodes on his spine, far below the damaged brain. His limbs loosened and his awareness came back. Both at once.
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A god who can do anything could keep us alive in a broken universe. So why bother making physics that works? A philosopher has an answer. #philosophy #physics dailyneuron.com/fine-tuning-...
A Creator With Unlimited Power Would Still Have Reason to Write Physics - Daily Neuron
A god who can do anything could keep us alive in a broken universe. So why bother making physics that works? A philosopher has an answer.
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Humans were supposed to be alone in grasping symmetry and right angles; the monkeys tested at a touchscreen scored like four-year-olds. #cogsci dailyneuron.com/monkeys-geom...
A Baboon at a Touchscreen Unsettles a Story About Human Minds - Daily Neuron
Humans were supposed to be alone in grasping symmetry and right angles; the monkeys tested at a touchscreen scored like four-year-olds.
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Reindeer starve on snow that still looks diggable. The cue works fine. What broke is the timing underneath it, and we have the same problem. #cogsci #climate dailyneuron.com/perception-t...
Climate Change Is Breaking the Timing Our Senses Rely On - Daily Neuron
Reindeer starve on snow that still looks diggable. The cue works fine. What broke is the timing underneath it, and we have the same problem.
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Dogs and horses read our faces. Meerkats that spend every day surrounded by visitors don't, and the reason points back to domestication. #evolution dailyneuron.com/meerkats-hum...
Meerkats Can't Read Your Mood And That Says Something About Dogs - Daily Neuron
Dogs and horses read our faces. Meerkats that spend every day surrounded by visitors don't, and the reason points back to domestication.
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Goldfish were supposed to lack the orderly sensory maps found in mammal brains. Their forebrains turn out to hold three of them. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/goldfish-for...
A Brain With No Cortex Still Maps Touch, Sound and Taste in Order - Daily Neuron
Goldfish were supposed to lack the orderly sensory maps found in mammal brains. Their forebrains turn out to hold three of them.
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Small, unarmed hominins somehow stole meat from lions. A musicologist argues their weapon was sound, the same force that still readies armies for war. #evolution dailyneuron.com/music-evolut...
Music Began as an Instrument of War Rather Than Love - Daily Neuron
Small, unarmed hominins somehow stole meat from lions. A musicologist argues their weapon was sound, the same force that still readies armies for war.
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See-through wings hide butterflies almost perfectly and free them to live anywhere, yet evolution has left nearly every land animal solid and opaque. #evolution dailyneuron.com/transparent-...
Evolution Keeps Turning Down Its Best Camouflage - Daily Neuron
See-through wings hide butterflies almost perfectly and free them to live anywhere, yet evolution has left nearly every land animal solid and opaque.
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We'll grant an inner life to a chatbot that talks about itself, but hesitate over an octopus that seeks out pain relief. A new paper calls it the "double bias": the password to being seen as conscious is fluent speech, no feeling required. dailyneuron.com/consciousnes...
The Chatbot Gets the Benefit of the Doubt and the Octopus Doesn't - Daily Neuron
The rule that decides which minds we credit runs on fluent words rather than felt experience, and it quietly shortchanges every creature that can't speak.
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A tidy theory said the brain files predictions in one place and surprises in another. Electrodes resting on nine patients' brains found something far messier. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/how-brain-pr...
The Brain's Machinery for Anticipating Sound Is Scattered, Not Sorted - Daily Neuron
A tidy theory said the brain files predictions in one place and surprises in another. Electrodes resting on nine patients' brains found something far messier.
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A dog that holds perfectly still through a scare may not be calm at all. The test meant to protect therapy dogs may reward the ones shutting down. #psychology dailyneuron.com/therapy-dog-...
The Calmest Therapy Dogs May Be the Most Stressed - Daily Neuron
A dog that holds perfectly still through a scare may not be calm at all. The test meant to protect therapy dogs may reward the ones shutting down.
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The trees that best matched the golden ratio came from Alzheimer's patients, not healthy ones, and the reason rewrites what the proportion means. #neuroscience #Alzheimer dailyneuron.com/golden-ratio...
The Golden Ratio Emerges as Dementia Empties the Mind - Daily Neuron
The trees that best matched the golden ratio came from Alzheimer's patients, not healthy ones, and the reason rewrites what the proportion means.
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The brain's memory hub isn't storing the past. It's guessing what comes next, and those guesses quietly become the world you see. #neuroscience #memory #perception dailyneuron.com/hippocampus-...
The Past Quietly Shapes Everything You Think You See - Daily Neuron
The brain's memory hub isn't storing the past. It's guessing what comes next, and those guesses quietly become the world you see.
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Give someone drawn toward isolation a game where they could be anyone, and they still want less socializing, less helping, less teaming up. Whatever pulls a person inward runs deeper than any avatar can hide. Read the original paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The strictest moral rules ignore context on purpose, and the reason comes down to how easily a good excuse can be faked. #cogsci dailyneuron.com/rigid-moral-...
The Rules We Treat as Sacred Are Really Built on Distrust - Daily Neuron
The strictest moral rules ignore context on purpose, and the reason comes down to how easily a good excuse can be faked.
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Adult monkeys mastered a new object task, yet their visual cortex barely budged. The reason is written into the math behind modern AI. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/gradient-des...
The Algorithm That Trains AI Predicts How Brains Learn to See - Daily Neuron
Adult monkeys mastered a new object task, yet their visual cortex barely budged. The reason is written into the math behind modern AI.
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For millions of years our ancestors saw their reflections as rivals. The moment one recognized itself may be where the sense of "I" began. #consciousness #evolution dailyneuron.com/reflection-o...
The Reflection That Taught Our Ancestors They Existed - Daily Neuron
For millions of years our ancestors saw their reflections as rivals. The moment one recognized itself may be where the sense of "I" began.
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Two people, one photograph, two different views of it. Where your eyes land is shaped by your own brain, not the picture in front of you. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/gaze-brain-f...
Vision Is Less a Camera Than a Hunt for the Familiar - Daily Neuron
Two people, one photograph, two different views of it. Where your eyes land is shaped by your own brain, not the picture in front of you.
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Spite, a grudge, even fear of hell; the feelings clinicians are trained to treat as danger sometimes hold a suicidal person to life. #psychology dailyneuron.com/reasons-peop...
Sometimes Spite Is What Keeps a Person Alive - Daily Neuron
Spite, a grudge, even fear of hell; the feelings clinicians are trained to treat as danger sometimes hold a suicidal person to life.
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Fossil skulls show brains ballooning and faces flattening across two million years, yet the numbers say almost nothing was steering the change. #evolution dailyneuron.com/human-skull-...
Human Evolution Looks Less Like a Climb and More Like a Wander - Daily Neuron
Fossil skulls show brains ballooning and faces flattening across two million years, yet the numbers say almost nothing was steering the change.
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Rushed to decide, the youngest children gave away more, not less, and the careful reasoning we treat as moral maturity was the part that arrived late. #psychology dailyneuron.com/children-kin...
Children Are Kind by Instinct Long Before They Are Kind by Reason - Daily Neuron
Rushed to decide, the youngest children gave away more, not less, and the careful reasoning we treat as moral maturity was the part that arrived late.
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A familiar face registers in a heartbeat yet stays known for years, and one brain cell handles those as two separate jobs on two different clocks. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/visual-famil...
Recognizing a Face and Remembering It Run on Separate Systems - Daily Neuron
A familiar face registers in a heartbeat yet stays known for years, and one brain cell handles those as two separate jobs on two different clocks.
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Wild marmosets take turns, avoid interrupting, and answer like with like. What their tiny conversations reveal about where human dialogue began. #cogsci #evolution #language dailyneuron.com/marmoset-voc...
The Tiny Monkeys That Wait Their Turn to Speak - Daily Neuron
Wild marmosets take turns, avoid interrupting, and answer like with like. What their tiny conversations reveal about where human dialogue began.
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You can recognize a face in a crowd but never quite describe it. A brain-reading system rebuilds the one held in memory, no words needed. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/reconstructi...
Your Brain Remembers Faces Your Words Never Could - Daily Neuron
You can recognize a face in a crowd but never quite describe it. A brain-reading system rebuilds the one held in memory, no words needed.
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Giving speech back to people who can’t talk has meant brain surgery. A magnetic scanner just read typed sentences from outside the skull. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/noninvasive-...
A Brain Reader That Skips Surgery Is Catching Up to Implants - Daily Neuron
Giving speech back to people who can't talk has meant brain surgery. A magnetic scanner just read typed sentences from outside the skull.
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Two groups walked the same thirty minutes; only the group under the trees came back calmer and sharper, and the calm helped explain it. #psychology dailyneuron.com/green-exerci...
The Calm a Forest Brings Is What Quietly Sharpens the Mind - Daily Neuron
Two groups walked the same thirty minutes; only the group under the trees came back calmer and sharper, and the calm helped explain it.
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Three oscillators can share one rigid pattern while no two of them ever sync, and the reason rewrites where collective order in complex systems comes from. #physics dailyneuron.com/hyperlocking...
A Form of Order That Lives in Threes and Vanishes in Twos - Daily Neuron
Three oscillators can share one rigid pattern while no two of them ever sync, and the reason rewrites where collective order in complex systems comes from.
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