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A team of engineers at Rice University and Kyung Hee University has developed a soft, shape-shifting mechanical surface that ...

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Aging is accompanied by progressive changes in brain structure and function that may affect cognition, emotional regulation, and adaptive behavior. While ...

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

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