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Enter the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. This is a group with a history of investigating serious jazz-classical crossover, as in its 1992 recording of Ron Collier’s orchestration of a suite based ...

This important study suggests that adolescent mice exhibit less accuracy than adult mice in a sound discrimination task when the sound frequencies are very similar. While the evidence supporting this ...

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The brain constantly evaluates whether stimuli are positive or negative, prompting approach or avoidance behaviors that are essential for survival.