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Neuroscience Daily for 30 May covers 3 neuroscience stories on diana fmri doubts, political brain correlates, trainable synesthesia. It is a compact audio briefing on studies, mechanisms, and the discussion around them.
Neuroscience Daily for 30 May follows 3 stories from r/neuro and r/neuroscience, moving through diana fmri doubts, political brain correlates, trainable synesthesia.
Nature reports on DIANA, a fast fMRI technique that was presented as a way to track neuronal activity almost as it happens, but the headline issue is that independent groups still have not been able to reproduce it. The article says two newer papers have added to the doubt around the original Science result.
A discussion on r/neuroscience centers on a Current Biology paper claiming that political orientation in young adults can be linked to differences in gray matter in the anterior cingulate cortex and right amygdala. The original post asks whether that sounds plausible and whether the finding could help explain a broader gender gap in political identity.
This story is about a Scientific Reports paper from Nature on whether synesthesia can be trained in adults. The study used an adaptive nine-week training program that paired letters with colors, and by the end many participants reported experiences that resembled grapheme-color synesthesia.
That's it for today.
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