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How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

Using a computational model, neuroscientists showed how the brain can selectively focus attention on one voice among others in a noisy environment.

Categories: Computational Neuroscience, Josh McDermott

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How the brain handles the “cocktail party problem”

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Liqun Luo named winner of the 2026 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience

Abstract neural netwrok

Neurons receive precisely tailored teaching signals as we learn

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Feng Zhang inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Language processing beyond the neocortex

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Unpacking social intelligence

colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell (T lymphocyte).

New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system

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colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell (T lymphocyte).

New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system

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All the connections

Celebrating worm science

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Who discovered neurons?