Hacker News with Generative AI: Brain Research

To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin (news.mit.edu)
A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.
Neuroscience, Linguistics, Language Learning, Brain Research, Language Processing
9 points by ilamont 15 days ago | 4 comments
EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019) (frontiersin.org)
The “neural correlates of consciousness” (NCC) is a familiar topic in neuroscience, overlapping with research on the brain’s “default mode network.” Task-based studies of NCC by their nature recruit one part of the cortical network to study another, and are therefore both limited and compromised in what they can reveal about consciousness itself.
Neuroscience, Meditation, Consciousness, Brain Research
117 points by Curiositry 44 days ago | 28 comments
Psychedelics Reduce Anxiety Without Hallucinations (neurosciencenews.com)
New research has pinpointed the specific brain region and neuron type responsible for reducing anxiety using the psychedelic drug DOI, without triggering hallucinations.
Psychedelics, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Brain Research
6 points by bookofjoe 179 days ago | 1 comments
Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience (thetransmitter.org)
Averaging is ubiquitous—and hides from us how the brain works.
Neuroscience, Science, Brain Research, Data Analysis
110 points by domofutu 191 days ago | 104 comments
Study Finds Brain Area Regulating Attention and Wakefulness (haaretz.com)
Neuroscience, Brain Research, Attention, Sleep
37 points by wslh 262 days ago | 6 comments