Urgent.News

One page, thousands of outlets. See who else covered it.

Editions

Science

Listening shapes seeing: Sustained auditory spatial attention enhances early visual-cortical processing

How does the auditory system implement spatial selection without a dedicated cortical map for space? One hypothesis holds that auditory spatial attention draws on a supra-modal network including the parietal-occipital cortex; an alternative implicates subcortical structures (e.g., superior colliculus) with no direct recruitment of visual cortex. To adjudicate between these accounts, we used a…

We haven't written up this one. bioRxiv has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at biorxiv.org →

More in Science

Scientists map the microscopic roots of chaos in dusty plasma using supercomputer simulations

Research Matters Staff Writer(s) Jammu 17 Aug 2026 Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the chaotic world of turbulence by tracking the movement of millions of individual particles in a specialised state of matter known as dusty plasma.

  • Scientists map microscopic origins of turbulence in dusty plasma using supercomputer simulations.
  • Understanding dusty plasma turbulence could improve plasma containment in nuclear fusion reactors.

More from Monday 17 August →