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Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv
Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out.
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A Measure of Consciousness
Despite much thought and ingenuity, neuroscience still struggles to define what consciousness is.
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Our remarkable capacity for imagination requires complex neural networks.
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A series of recent studies now offers preliminary evidence that depression may, indeed, alter aspects of perception.
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