neuroscience

Jazz and rap, two styles that need an improvising brain

If in the musical world there are styles that stand out for their improvisation, those are jazz and rap. We imagine a jazz band in which apparently everyone goes their own way and yet produces a sound that the slightly more expert ears experience as harmonic.

Your brain knows if you will eat chocolate

Chocolate ... it has been called 'emotional food' and it is a pleasure for many and even an addiction for some ... But, can we know who will end up eating a piece of this delicacy after having seen, smelled and touched it for a while ?

The shape of our environment alters the internal GPS of the brain

The grid or grid patterns created in the brain, which are believed to guide us in navigation, something like the brain's GPS, are modified by the shape of our environment according to the latest study carried out by researchers from University College London (UK). This would mean that the way the brain measures distance is not a universal indicator for the brain's navigation system. The study has been published in the journal Nature.

Hypothermia protects the brain

Many mammals when they go into hibernation, suffer not only a drop in body temperature but also many of their brain functions disappear. All this is due to a spectacular maneuver of nature to treasure resources. Once winter is over, your brain works again in the same way as it did before hibernation. There is no memory leak or any other effect.

Convert skin cells into neurons

A team of scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (USA) has succeeded in converting human skin cells into a specific type of brain cell without using stem cells in the process. The work has been published in the journal Neuron.

They transform bad memories into good ones

Through an experiment with mice, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has succeeded in altering the emotions - positive or negative - associated with memories without the use of chemical substances. The study has been published in the journal Nature.

This is how babies' brains grow

The brain is the key to being human. A research group has discovered exactly the speed at which it develops in the first days of life. And the result is surprising.

This is how our brain judges the harshness of a punishment

What brain mechanisms influence decision-making about the severity that we impose on a punishment? This has been the central axis of the research carried out by a team of scientists from Harvard University (USA) and which has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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