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Frontiers: Thanks for the Memories
Everyone wants a good memory but we don't often ask ourselves what memory is for. Let's begin our exploration of why memory is important and how it works with a little memory test: Do you remember what you learned in class last...
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Frontiers: Your Brain Is Like a Muscle: Use It and Make It Strong
An article about how games and puzzles can exercise and strengthen the brain.
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Frontiers: Going to School to Sculpt the Brain
When I was a kid, I thought of going to school as an obligation imposed by my parents, and I guess many kids feel the same. My father used to say, "you need to study hard to build a better future for yourself," but I think that if my...
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Frontiers: Brain Machine Interfaces: Your Brain in Action
Brain-machine interfaces (BMI), or brain-computer interfaces (BCI), is an exciting multidisciplinary field that has grown tremendously during the last decade. In a nutshell, BMI is about transforming thought into action and sensation...
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Frontiers: How Do We See Color
The heroine of the movie is leaning over a ticking bomb. Under the bright white lights of the mayor's office, the timer is racing down to zero and she has only one chance to defuse it. As she opens the cover from the control panel, a...
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Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch
You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that...
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Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
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Frontiers: The Amazing History of Neuroscience
An easy to understand article on the history of brain study.
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Frontiers: Human Toolmaker
Do you enjoy building airplanes, cars, houses, or robots with Lego blocks? Humans are the only animal species that can create complicated constructions from simple Lego blocks - our Lego building ability is "human-specific," since it is...
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Frontiers: How Ventriloquism Works
My son and I have a pet orangutan named Kevin. He talks to us almost every day and usually asks for a banana. All right, he's not a pet, he's a large hairy puppet, and I make him talk using the trick of ventriloquism. But it's pretty fun...
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Frontiers: The Brain Never Stops
An article about the spontaneous activity of the brain.
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Frontiers: Stop! How We Inhibit Acts
An article on how the brain is able to immediately stop a planned action.
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Frontiers: The Scientific Significance of Sleep Talking
An article about sleep talking, why we do it, and what we say.
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Frontiers: Meg for Kids: Listening to Your Brain With Super Cool Squi Ds
Inside your brain, you have over 80 billion neurons - tiny brain cells, all working together to make you the person you are.Neurons talk to each other by sending electrical messages. Each message creates a tiny magnetic field. If enough...
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Frontier: So You Think You Can't Dance?
Believe it or not, even babies can feel the beat of a rhythm. However, science has documented the first case of a person who could not dance to the beat. His name is Mathieu, and he is an intelligent, talented - even musical - guy with...
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Frontiers:the Brain and Language: How Our Brains Communicate
An article about how the brain responds when listening and speaking.
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Frontiers: Building the Roads in the City of Your Brain
"Are you ready to go into the spaceship? Remember to stay very still!" This is what you hear before the bed you are lying down on starts to slide into a long, tube shaped machine. You can almost imagine that it really is a spaceship, and...
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Frontiers:white Matter Counts: Brain Connections Help Us Do 2+2
An article about white matter and how brain connections are used to solve math problems.
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Frontiers: Cognitive Development
Who is the smartest in your family? That's a no-brainer, you might think: it is clearly mom or dad. But what about your grandma and grandpa, are they smarter than mom and dad? How will things be in a few years from now, when you are done...
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Frontiers: Do You Feel Lonely? Lessons From Social Neuroscience
Have you ever felt left out, isolated, rejected, and/or frustrated that your parents, your siblings or even your classmates do not seem to understand you? If so, you are not alone. In the 1980s, scientific reports indicated that 2 out of...
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Frontiers: Drama in a Teenage Brain
The lives of teenagers are different from the lives of children. This period of life - adolescence - is a time of both social and biological change. Social lives become more complex during adolescence, and the teenage years are when we...
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Frontiers: Brain Projects Think Big
When you read these words, hundreds of millions of nerve cells are electrically and chemically active in your brain. This activity enables you to recognize words, sense the world, learn, enjoy and create new things, and be curious about...
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Frontiers: The Truth About a Bird's Eye View
An article about the eyes and sight of different animals including flies, dogs, color vision, and night vision.