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Scary music is spookier with eyes shut

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Scary music is spookier with eyes shut

A brain centre involved in sensing emotion and fear kicks into action when volunteers listen to horror-movie scores with eyes closed

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The blind spot and the vanishing head illusion

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Is your cat left or right pawed?

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Is your cat left or right pawed?

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'Oprah neuron' hints at nature of memory

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'Oprah neuron' hints at nature of memory

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Why children paint trees blue

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Apes may imitate but they struggle to innovate

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Apes may imitate but they struggle to innovate

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Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients

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Doctors missing consciousness in vegetative patients

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Girl with half a brain retains full vision

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Girl with half a brain retains full vision

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Artistic tendencies linked to 'schizophrenia gene'

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Artistic tendencies linked to 'schizophrenia gene'

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Review: <i>The Root of Thought</i> by Andrew Koob

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Review: The Root of Thought by Andrew Koob

In the study of brain cells, neurons have always hogged the limelight, even though glial cells make up 90 per cent of the brain – could they have a more important role?

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Blindspot shows brain rewiring in an instant

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'Honest Joes' and cheaters unmasked in brain scans

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Autism alters how kids sense motion

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Brain wiring creates false memories

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