These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford ...

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

Whether speaking or swinging a bat, precise and adaptable timing of movement is essential for everyday behavior. Although we do not have sensory organs like eyes or a nose to sense time, we can keep ...

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

Each technological development impacts human brains in a different way. But when the development is a more efficient brain than any human possesses, the impact could be significant for the most ...

Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across ...

The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, scientists report in Nature Neuroscience.

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.

Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, and perceive the world. Caption: This image shows a topographic vision ...

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...