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What we actually hear
Our ears are always tuned in. But what exactly are they picking up?
03.10.2025
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- Anatomy
The Pons
The name is not correct, but it is involved in motor function, taste, and important vegetative functions.
20.09.2025
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- Think
- Emotions
Conscious Emotions
We only consciously feel fear, disgust, love, and hate when the cerebral cortex is engaged.
11.08.2025
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- Think
- Consciousness
Playing Tennis in a vegetative State
Adrian Owen and colleagues use brain scans to search for the hidden minds of coma patients.
12.06.2025
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- Question to the brain
Why do we get Headaches?
The brain has no pain receptors. So why do we still get headaches?
14.10.2025
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Vision
About 80 percent of the information about the environment comes from our eyes. A good quarter of the brain is involved in processing this input.
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- Glossary
Accommodation
Change in the thickness of the lens of the eye by the ciliary muscles. This adjustment process increases the refractive power of the lens, allowing objects at different distances to be seen clearly.
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Eyeball layers
The layers of the eye form the wall of the eyeball. They can be roughly divided into three areas: the outer membrane with the cornea and sclera, the middle membrane with the iris, choroid, and ciliary body, and the inner membrane with the photoreceptive and blind parts of the retina.
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Cornea
The cornea is the transparent front part of the outer layer of the eye. It is involved in refracting light, ensuring that the image of a distant object falls on the point of sharpest vision on the retina.
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Convergence
Convergence of neurons occurs when several neurons are connected synaptically to a single transmitting neuron. In the eye, for example, information received by up to 130 receptors is transmitted to only one neuron in the retina. The opposite is divergence, when one neuron transmits signals to several other neurons.
