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Our Favorite Neuroscience Stories of 2022

(Left) The optic lobes are thought to be involved in visual processing. In this study, researchers found that guppies with larger optic lobes more quickly learned a visual discrimination task—identifying which color well contained food. (Right) The fish telencephalon is thought to be involved in spatial learning, memory, and inhibitory control. Here, the researchers found that a larger telencephalon might enhance the fish’s cognitive flexibility, allowing them to more quickly associate food with a new color after the researchers switched it.

Infographic: Two Guppy Brain Regions May Help Them Learn Tasks

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Fish Brain Region Size Correlates with Cognitive Flexibility

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How Neurons in a Dish Learned to Play “Pong”

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Uncovering Monkey Pattern Recognition: Why Macaques See Patterns That Aren't There

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Electrically Zapping Specific Brain Regions Can Boost Memory

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Science Snapshot: How Brains Handle Surprise Parties

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Study Suggests Dolphins Use Coral Mucus as Medicine

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Dopamine Drives Bee Desires: Study

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Distracted Brains Better at Parsing Unfamiliar Languages: Study

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The Scientist Editors’ Favorite Stories of 2021

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Our Favorite Cell and Molecular Biology Stories of 2021

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Neuroscientist Mortimer Mishkin Dies at 94

Can Single Cells Learn?

Infographic: Investigating Whether Single Cells Learn

Dietary Spermidine Boosts Cognition in Insects and Rodents

MIT Unveils Program to Help Grad Students Find a New Adviser

Once Is Enough For Long-Term Memory Formation in Bees

What Do New Neurons in the Brains of Adults Actually Do?

Infographic: How Adult-Born Neurons Integrate into the Brain

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Discover how to streamline tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte production.

Producing Tumor-infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapeutics

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Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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