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EuronewsBrain Continues to Process Language and Predict Words During Anaesthesia, Study Shows
A study of epilepsy patients published in Nature revealed that neural circuits continue to encode sound, detect odd tones and even anticipate words from podcasts while patients were unconscious. Researchers observed real-time speech processing and predictive coding typically asso…
sciencealert.comStudy Finds Hippocampus Continues Processing Speech and Grammar Under General Anaesthesia
A study published today in Nature shows that the hippocampus remains active under general anaesthesia, parsing grammar and meaning of spoken words. Researchers recorded individual neurons in seven patients anaesthetized with propofol during epilepsy surgery. The findings indicate…
Bagley J, LaRocca G, Jimenez DA, Urban NN. / Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)Study Shows Imagining Objects Reactivates Neurons Used in Visual Perception
Researchers recorded brain activity in epilepsy patients and found that imagining viewed objects reactivates about 40 percent of the same neurons active during perception. The study, published April 9 in Science, examined activity in the ventral temporal cortex. Findings provide…
Substrate placeholder — needs reviewStudy Shows Expert Echolocators Build Spatial Perception Through Multiple Clicks and Echoes
Researchers found that expert blind echolocators improve object location accuracy with successive tongue clicks and echoes. Brain activity recordings indicate evidence accumulation over multiple signals. The study, published April 6 in eNeuro, provides insights into auditory proc…