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Imagine you’re at a party where two people are vying for your attention. One moment you’re chatting with Person A, and the next, Person B steals your focus. This interesting back-and-forth, known as binocular rivalry, also happens in our brains when we process visual information from our two eyes. Scientists have long been fascinated by […]
Imagine you’re a chef trying out new recipes. Sometimes, a pinch of salt is all you need to enhance the flavor. Similarly, scientists are finding that by precisely stimulating specific brain regions, they can improve clinical outcomes. In a cutting-edge technique called targeted neuroplasticity, invasive neuromodulation therapies are used to rewire the brain in a […]
Several decades of research shows that sleep plays an important role in memory consolidation, the process by which short-term memory is strengthened and integrated into long-term memory networks. Memory reactivations (see Glossary, also often referred to as neural replay), whereby newly formed memory traces become spontaneously active again after encoding, have been proposed as one […]
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