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FMRI scan during working memory tasks

Mind

Brain scanning studies are usually too small to find reliable results

Most studies that have used MRI machines to find links between the brain’s structure or function and complex mental traits had an average of 23 participants, but thousands are needed to find reliable results

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Giving low-income US families $4000 a year boosts child brain activity

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Illustration of the hippocampus in a child's brain.

Humans

Higher US welfare benefits seem to protect children's brains

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fish

Life

Fish brains grow when they have to think more and shrink if they don't

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Life

Wasps with no social life may find it harder to recognise others

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Life

Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution

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AI can tell what song you are listening to from your brainwaves

Technology

AI can tell what song you are listening to from your brainwaves

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Health

Living electrodes for linking brains to computers tested in rats

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Elon Musk demonstrated a Neuralink brain implant in a live pig

Technology

Elon Musk demonstrated a Neuralink brain implant in a live pig

A pig named Gertrude demonstrated a working Neuralink brain implant for the first time, and Elon Musk says the next step is to move into human trials soon

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Mind

Man sees half of every face like it's melting due to rare brain lesion

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Bill Bryson on the miraculous human body

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Mind

Brain implant lets man with paralysis move and feel with his hand

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Mind

Human brains have ‘time cells’ that let us recall when events happened

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