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A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

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Does the hippocampus only track location? A new study shows how the brain's memory center shifts activity between anterior ...

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Déjà vu, a French term for "already seen," describes the unsettling feeling of experiencing a new situation as familiar.

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In a two-story brick office building in Emeryville, neuroscientists are making plans to fit mice with diminutive brain-computer interfaces to record patterns of neural activity while they perform ...