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Researchers in Canada, Israel and India believe music can offer clues about the ability of the brain to transfer learning
Does music hold the key to understanding how the brain learns and transfers information? A team of researchers from Canada, Israel and India are tuning to find out. Part of an ongoing series of stories about innovative projects in the developing world, a partnership between the International Development Research Centre and Canadian Geographic.
Visit the Charting Change website to read “Tuning into how the brain learns.”
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It’s not always easy to fathom how neuroscientists study how the brain works.But at the University of Saskatchewan, students like Layla Gould do it by asking…
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An ambitious project seeks to use artificial intelligence to speak with sperm whales. But is this even possible? What would we say — and would they want to speak with us?
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This BigBrain researcher led the team that created the world’s first 3D high-resolution map of the human brain