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

An international research collaboration led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists that examined microscopic blobs of protein found in human cells has discovered that some morph from an almost ...

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

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

A new soft auditory brainstem implant (ABI) developed by researchers at EPFL may revolutionize hearing restoration for people ...

Part of the appeal of phrenology was that it gave people a vocabulary to understand themselves and others. With urbanisation and a growing middle class, outside rigid class and religious structures, ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

Researchers use neuroimaging techniques to map creativity, not simply to specific regions, but to a "creativity circuit" in ...

The 3D blueprints show more than two miles of neural wiring, close to 100,000 nerve cells, and about 500 million synapses.

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought ...

His team found that babies who had been exposed to these chemicals in the womb had lower levels of important brain chemicals, including serotonin and dopamine. These help control mood ...

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s ...