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After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

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New research reveals that trait shyness is linked to reduced spontaneous neural activity in the cerebellum, a brain region ...

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Slow, sleep-like brainwaves persist in part of the brain that has been surgically disconnected from the rest of the organ, even though the person is awake. The findings 1, published in PLoS Biology, ...

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As the self-quantification movement matures, users are expanding beyond physical tracking to assess how they think, decide, ...