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Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

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Third are sensory reconstruction interfaces, such as restoring hearing or vision. For patients who have lost sensory input, ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...