Imagine your brain as a bustling city, with different neighborhoods dedicated to specific tasks. Well, when it comes to processing sentences, it turns out that young brains and older brains have different neighborhoods! A team of scientists studied the effects of aging on sentence comprehension by looking at brain activity using event-related potentials. They found […]
Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is crucial for adjusting our behavior based on their emotional state. Recent research has revealed fascinating insights into empathy in rodents, showing that they not only exhibit emotional contagion but also engage in prosocial behavior. Rodents, like humans, have neural structures that are involved […]
Imagine going to an ice cream shop with a friend who can’t decide on a flavor. You suggest that they try the strong IIT, which focuses on specific properties tied to high levels of integrated information and identifies consciousness with those aspects. But they’re not convinced, so you propose trying weak IIT instead. This version […]
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