Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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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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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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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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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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