This research shows that the cerebral cortex is continuously detecting novel stimuli, in order to change and improve its ...

Emotional triggers are stimuli that evoke strong emotional responses. They can be anything from a word, a smell, a place, a ...

Instead, sensory stimuli are processed in the spinal cord before reaching the brain. These findings have been published in Science Advances and may lead to new approaches to the long-term ...

This research shows that the cerebral cortex is continuously detecting novel stimuli, in order to change and improve its predictions of the future. Novelty detection is a critical function for ...