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Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising

Health

Your brain fills gaps in your hearing without you realising

The words we hear are often obscured by other noises, but it doesn’t matter. Before we get a chance to notice, our brains guess what we should hear instead

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Person with a suspected head injury on a stretcher

Health

Mystery brain particles may link head injuries to dementia

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Humans

Emotions are not universal – we build them for ourselves

Features

Memory athlete

Humans

How to train your brain to be like a memory champion’s

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Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

Life

Sociable woodpeckers that cooperate have evolved smaller brains

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Two white-haired people on park bench with headphones on

Humans

Older people are just as good at judging music as younger adults

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Washing hands

Health

Brain’s inability to see that something is safe causes OCD

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A Baxter robot moving a box with its arm

Technology

Humans control robots with their minds by watching for mistakes

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Brain scan of person with Alzheimer's disease

Health

Autoimmune disorders linked to an increased risk of dementia

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anaesthetic artwork

Health

Anaesthesia: What really happens when the lights go out

We've used it for hundreds of years, but we still don't know how anaesthesia works. Finding out could lead to safer drugs and unlock the mystery of consciousness

Features

Humans

Unmaking the myths of our gendered minds

Culture

Health

Putting you under: When anaesthesia goes wrong

Features

Life

The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name

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Health

Try these simple mental tests to see if you're a good athlete

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