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Researchers Report Decoding Thoughts from fMRI Data

A method appears to be the first to noninvasively reconstruct language from brain activity.

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Same Parts of the Brain Control Processing of Dozens of Languages

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How Meditation Changes the Brain: New Study Challenges Popular Beliefs

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What Scientists Learned by Putting Octopuses in MRI Machines

Chloe Tenn | | 3 min read

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Darby Saxbe Digs into Relationships’ Effects on Human Biology

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How Scientists Are Tackling Brain Imaging’s Replication Problem

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Secrets in the Brains of People Who Have Committed Murder

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When Dogs Offer Insights into Tigers

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MRI Pioneer Peter Mansfield Dies

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Study: Student Athletes Display Brain Abnormalities After One Football Season

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Dogs Respond to Words and Inflection

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Do Schizophrenic Brains Repair Themselves?

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Jacob Hooker: Weaver of Brain Science

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