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Sniffing out the brain's predictive power: Human brain smells what it expects rather than what it sniffs Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:33 AM PDT In the moments before you "stop and smell the roses," it's likely your brain is already preparing your sensory system for that familiar floral smell. New research offers strong evidence that the brain uses predictive coding to generate "predictive templates" of specific smells -- setting up a mental expectation of a scent before it hits your nostrils.

Aquatic fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team witnessed a small amphibious fish, the mangrove rivulus, jump with apparent skill and purpose out of a small net and back into the water. This was no random flop, like you might see from a trout that's just been landed. The rivulus seemed to know what it was doing.

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