Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Blueberry juice boosts memory.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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