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After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

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After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

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The illustration represents how sounds are encoded in the cerebral cortex, with neurons (at right) using "echoing" activity to track auditory stimuli to change and improve the brain's predictions of ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular ...