March 14, 2024 | By Dan Vahaba Originally published on Duke Today --- DURHAM, NC – Living in a poorer neighborhood is linked to accelerated brain aging and increased dementia risk early in life, regardless of income level or education, a Duke University-led study fin| News RSS Feed
November 29, 2023 | By RA Smith Originally published in Duke Today --- DURHAM, N.C. -- We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience,| News RSS Feed
DURHAM, NC – Scientists can now pinpoint where someone’s eyes are looking just by listening to their ears. “You can actually estimate the movement of the eyes, the position of the target that the eyes are going to look at, just from recordings made with a microphone in the ear canal,” s| News RSS Feed
November 13, 2023 | By Winston Qian Originally published by Duke Chronicle --- Duke researchers are studying the brain by giving psychedelics to larval zebrafish. As a “side project” in the Naumann Lab, neurobiology doc| News RSS Feed
It’s a miracle that people aren’t constantly getting into car accidents. Whizzing by at 65 miles per hour in a car, the brain rapidly decodes millions of photons worth of information from the eyes, and then must use that information to instantly figure out where it is and where it needs to go. Is that […]| Research Blog
October 24, 2023 | By Abby Hsiung Originally published on Duke Today --- DURHAM, NC – Curiosity paradoxically increases people’s eagerness and patience for an answer, finds a new study by Duke neuroscientists. The research might help teachers and students alike by des| News RSS Feed
