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How the brain rapidly switches between internal and external processing

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How the brain rapidly switches between internal and external processing
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A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain processes information through large-scale network changes. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, reveal that the brain can rewire its networks in just seconds after a brief neural signal—challenging the long-held belief that such changes are slow and gradual, based on imaging techniques like functional MRI (fMRI).

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