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Meredith Schmehl

Neurobiology

Duke University

Meredith Schmehl is a Neurobiology PhD student at Duke University, where she studies how monkeys integrate what they see and hear. Outside of the lab, she is active in science writing, policy, outreach, and multimedia projects.

Meredith has authored 1 article

Scientists put visions of letters in blind people's brains

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Stimulating the brain in specific ways can generate mental images of simple shapes

Meredith Schmehl

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Monkeys can predict human behavior

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The ability to perceive and understand how others might react to a situation is not unique to humans

Emotion recognition isn't just about facial expressions and body language

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UC Berkeley researchers show that humans can guess how someone is feeling from context cues alone

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Brain banks are key to understanding COVID's mysterious symptoms, but only if people are willing to donate

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Some COVID-19 patients experience dizziness, loss of smell and even seizures, but we need brain donations from patients and healthy controls to understand why.

Kathryn Vaillancourt

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Scientists discover brain cells that remember where escape routes are

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These neurons track safe places so mice can escape threats in a split-second

Samuel J Walker

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New research uses CRISPR gene editing to grow new neurons in diseased brains

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Scientists hope the CRISPR-based therapy could treat neurodegenerative disease

Sahana Sitaraman

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Your brain isn't the same in virtual reality as it is in the real world

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VR is widely used to study the brain, but it isn't the same as real life — and this has real-world consequences

Dori Grijseels

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Connecting brains to machines may let bacteria come along for the ride

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Brain-machine interfaces like Elon Musk's Neuralink have come a long way, but biological limitations remain

Amy R Nippert

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You live in a mostly 2D world, but the map in your brain charts the places you've been in 3D

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Place cells in the brain light up in familiar places, both on the ground and climbing in the air

Dori Grijseels

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Feel like quitting? Blame your brain cells

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Understanding the biological mechanisms of “giving up” in fish may teach us about complex human behaviors

Claudia López Lloreda

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