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Bremen Team Deciphers Information Processing
Exact moment at which a signal hits receptive nerve cells determines how it is processed
01.09.2025
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The Team
20.03.2017
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Neurons gather together for vision
As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns
20.02.2025
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The Topic Partners
27.02.2024
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Soccer
Don't think, just do it!
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The Cortex
The brain's control center, seat of perception, consciousness, and behavior
20.09.2025
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Smart Flies
Fruit flies learn extremely quickly. Their goal is to eat as much as possible. Their memory helps them to behave in a very agile manner.
18.01.2026
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Twin studies
Pairs of twins are valuable subjects for human geneticists and psychologists who want to find out to what extent certain characteristics are genetically determined and what role environmental conditions play. Of particular interest here is how much more similar identical twins are compared to fraternal twins. The degree of genetic similarity differs between identical (100%) and fraternal twins (50%). However, they live in a similar environment, so the degree of greater similarity between identical twins compared to fraternal twins can be used to estimate the genetic contribution to traits such as intelligence. In this case, depending on the study, it was estimated to be between 50 and 80 percent, depending on whether the environmental differences in the population (health care, access to education) are large or small.
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Humor
There is an art, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to through yourself at the ground and miss.
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Herophilus and Erasistratus: Discoverers of the Nerves
Herophil of Chalcedon and Erasistratus were a pair of researchers who succeeded in discovering the nerves.
18.09.2014
