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First brain map of speech units could aid mind-reading

Life

First brain map of speech units could aid mind-reading

The map is the first to show brain areas devoted to distinct types of phoneme – it could allow what someone is hearing to be read from a brain scan

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Conversation app helps parents boost child's language

Technology

Conversation app helps parents boost child's language

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Neuroscience's most famous brain is reconstructed

Life

Neuroscience's most famous brain is reconstructed

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Health

Scratch a mirror image of your itch to bring relief

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Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

Health

Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

Features

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Life

The urge to dehumanise others is itself all too human

Leader

Talent for prejudice: Why humans dehumanise others

Life

Talent for prejudice: Why humans dehumanise others

Features

Mindscapes: The first recording of hallucinated music

Life

Mindscapes: The first recording of hallucinated music

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How far can a Buddhist approach to biology take us?

Life

How far can a Buddhist approach to biology take us?

CultureLab

Lifelogging: Crowdsourcing + life logs = big insights

Life

Lifelogging: Crowdsourcing + life logs = big insights

New lifelogging devices can be meshed with data from the crowd to tackle hard-to-answer questions about human health and behaviour

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Life

Learning drugs reawaken grown-up brain's inner child

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Health

Breast cancer impersonates neurons to invade the brain

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Life

See half a world and you can't reason about the past

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Health

A break from booze, a break from bad habits

Opinion

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