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The Eyes Are Windows into the Brain

Tracking eye movements and how they change could help doctors identify signs of brain diseases.
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How the Posterior Parietal Cortex Makes Meaning Out of What We Sense

Neurons in this area may be part of the mechanism that pulls the aggregate memory of similar sensations to help identify or place a new sensation.
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How to Perceive Without Sight

Neuroscientist Jacqueline Gottlieb sat down with entrepreneur Isaac Lidsky at a public event on how people use their senses to construct their own reality.
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A Bird’s Eye View of Sensory Perception

Report from FENS Forum of Neuroscience

Q&A with Carl Petersen ahead of his European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB) / Max Cowan Special Lecture at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen
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The Science of Illusion

By studying the disconnect between perception and reality, scientists can learn about brain function and its relevance to mental health, decision making, and the way we view ourselves and others.

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On Empathy

Q&A with Peggy Mason

Empathy—the ability to perceive and share another person's emotional state—is the subject of the October 2014 Cerebrum article “With A Little Help from My Friends: How the Brain Processes Empathy.” We chat with the author.
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With a Little Help from Our Friends: How the Brain Processes Empathy

Why are certain individuals born with a brain that is wired to help others? What daily habits or life experiences reinforce compassion but also selfishness, narcissism, and psychopathy? Social neuroscience models have assumed that people simply rely on their own emotions as a reference for empathy, but recent studies suggest neurobiological underpinnings for how the brain processes empathy. A better understanding of these processes, says the author, could lead to more social cohesion and less antisocial harm in society.
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The Neuroscience of Aesthetics

How does the brain process, respond to, and create art? Scientists and artists recently spent two days in Baltimore talking about how to start answering such questions.
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The Intuitive Magician

Why Belief in the Supernatural Persists

The brains of even young babies not only organize sensory information but supply what is missing, determine cause and effect, and use the information to generate theories about how the world operates. Such natural intuitive reasoning persists when we become adults, says British cognitive neuroscientist Bruce Hood, Ph.D., and may underlie the tendency of even the most rational of us to believe in supernatural phenomena. At its distorted extreme, such reasoning can cause the paranoid delusions of schizophrenia. But sensing connections where others do not can be a hallmark of creativity and even scientific discovery.

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