Brain Struct Funct · 2015No. 1
Neuroscience
Is silence golden?
Effects of auditory stimuli and their absence on adult hippocampal neurogenesis
What silence, noise and music did to new brain cells in mice.
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PNAS · 2024No. 2
Memory
Repetition dynamically and rapidly increases cortical, but not hippocampal, offline reactivation
What the brain replays in seven quiet minutes.
J Assoc Consumer Res · 2017No. 3
Attention
Brain Drain
The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
Does a silent phone on the desk cost you anything?
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perspicuity per-spi-KYOO-i-tee · noun
Clearness of expression.