Findings could help illuminate role of brain region in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking: paper Chinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information ...

Biophilic environments are becoming essential. As more people experience overstimulation, this return to nature represents a ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Findings challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

Shedding light on how the brain fine-tunes its wiring during learning, a new study finds that different dendritic segments of a single neuron follow ...

An interesting gathering of doctors and artists took place in Antipolo City recently. They came together to vouch for the ...

Most of us picture “raw intelligence” as lightning‑fast mental maths or quoting Shakespeare before breakfast. But modern ...

The human brain is thought to constantly predict future words during language processing. Recently, a new approach to investigating linguistic predictions emerged which aims to capture predictive ...

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but set in stone; how we think, feel, reason, and understand the world changes ...