🧠🎵 New #research suggests that musical understanding is an innate cognitive skill acquired through daily exposure rather than formal training.

Scientists found that both musicians and non-musicians use the same predictive mental frameworks to identify patterns and structures in #songs.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/your-brain-understands-music-theory/

#neuroscience #brains #learning #music #education #psychology

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635392-800-no-need-to-stop-the-brain-rot-modern-kids-arent-less-intelligent/

Neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett tackles a common, but unfair, claim about modern young people. For New Scientist magazine

#Brains #BrainRot #Youth #GenZ

Experts no longer believe in photographic memory. Here’s what convinced them

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/photographic-memory-wrong

A Science Focus longread article by me on the science of eidetic (photographic) memory, and how the brain deals with memory in general.

#Brains #Memory #Neuroscience

2026 saw the publication of the 10 year anniversary edition of Dean Burnett's global smash debut book, The Idiot Brain

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dean-Burnett/The-Idiot-Brain--Why-Your-Brain-Gets-Things-Wrong-and-Why-Thats-Alright/32355466

So, if you've already waited over a decade to get it, you should buy it now. You're already overdue!

#TheIdiotBrain #Brains #Books #Neuroscience

How to spot the subtle thinking pattern that can accelerate dementia

https://www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/negative-thinking-dementia

A Science Focus article by Dean Burnett, which explores the evidence linking negative thinking with the onset of dementia.

#Brains #mentalhealth #Dementia #Psychology #Wellbeing