neuroscience – Kettinki

2026-02-22 @ 10.01.05 ∈ In English

2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests

When babies looked at an image like a cat, their brains might "fire" a certain way that researchers could record, O'Doherty said. If they looked at an inanimate object, their brains would fire differently.

2025-03-20 @ 19.18.27 ∈ In English

They’d rather die: The lesson that male roundworms refuse to learn

The female worms quickly learned to draw a link between the odor of the harmful bacteria and the disease that it causes, and therefore chose to eat the other bacterium. Most males, however, failed to learn and continued consuming the harmful bacterium, even though they got just as sick.

2025-02-20 @ 14.08.13 ∈ In English

Neuroscientists Discovered the Key to Dream Memory – And It Might Surprise You

[People] with a positive attitude toward dreams and a tendency for mind-wandering were significantly more likely to recall their dreams. […] Younger participants showed higher rates of dream recall[.] [Some reported] lower dream recall during winter compared to spring[.]

2024-04-03 @ 16.18.15 ∈ In English

I wonder if this is (at least partly) explans different people’s different video framerate prefences (30 vs 60 fps).

I spy with my speedy eye – scientists discover speed of visual perception ranges widely in humans

Some participants in the experiment indicated they saw the light as completely still when it was in fact flashing about 35 times per second, while others were still able to perceive the flashing at rates of over 60 times per second.