A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

So-called “offline states”—when a person isn’t thinking about much and their attention is free to wander —give the brain an opportunity to revisit and process its recent experiences, says Erin Wamsley ...

The human brain is constantly managing streams of information that move at very different speeds. Some signals require ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...

This post is in response to Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory By Paul L. Nunez PhD Does consciousness arise exclusively from complex interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does ...

A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across the Pacific, a team of American engineers wrapped a soft electronic mesh ...

The secret behind insects' lightning-fast reactions could offer a blueprint for more energy-efficient robots and self-driving cars, according to a new study challenging our understanding of how brains ...

André Fenton (left) is the Director of the Center for Neural Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University (NY, USA) researching how the brain processes information and stores ...

A new study finds that psychological resilience is linked to a decision-making bias that places less value on minor losses, ...

A new study from Rutgers Health examined how the human brain combines fast and slow forms of information processing through its white matter communication ...