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

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 ...

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 human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across ...

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

You meet someone new, they introduce themselves, and thirty seconds later you’ve completely forgotten their name. You feel embarrassed, maybe a bit stupid. The truth is more interesting. Forgetting ...

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