A new study offers insight into what is happening in our brains when our working memory must use its limited resources to remember multiple things. Researchers found that two parts of the brain work ...

No effective treatment was available to them – certainly nothing approaching a cure – and many lived the rest of their lives ...

Neuroscientists have identified brain areas related to self-relevance, social relevance, and a value system. When a decision ...

An NIH-funded project leverages advanced synapse imaging to monitor real-time neuronal changes during learning, unveiling new ...

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

PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

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 brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience00304-5/fulltext) has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural ...

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

“Our findings show a close connection between the right frontal brain network involved in reasoning and the right frontal ...

This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and ...