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These muscle cells are guideposts to help regenerative flatworms grow back their eyes Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:48 AM PDT If anything happens to the eyes of the tiny, freshwater-dwelling planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, they can grow them back within just a few days. New research provides insight about how the worms accomplish this feat: researchers have identified a new type of cell that likely serves as a guidepost to help route axons from the eyes to the brain as the worms complete the difficult task of regrowing their neural circuitry. |
Children of academics exhibit more stress Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:48 AM PDT If the parents have a degree, their children also believe that they have to get one. This can put them under pressure. |
'Where are my keys?' and other memory-based choices probed in the brain Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:07 AM PDT Researchers visualize how memories are selectively retrieved in the brain. |
Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:07 AM PDT A new study shows that the central bank tool known as quantitative easing helped consumers substantially during the last big economic downturn -- a finding with clear relevance for today's pandemic-hit economy. |
Selling something? Tap into consumer arrogance Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:07 AM PDT In today's world of consumption, likes and shares, a new study shows that that leveraging consumer arrogance might be marketers' most effective strategy for promoting their brands and products. |
The human brain tracks speech more closely in time than other sounds Posted: 22 Jun 2020 10:30 AM PDT The way that speech processing differs from the processing of other sounds has long been a major open question in human neuroscience. Researchers have endeavored to answer this by investigating brain representations for natural spoken words using machine learning models and comparing them with representations of environmental sounds that refer to the same concepts -- such as the word cat and a cat meowing. |
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