A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic relationship ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex ...

Scientists discover a brain pathway that helps suppress fear, offering new hope for anxiety and PTSD treatment.

The study highlights the existence of a functional hierarchy in the human cerebral cortex, where posterior areas—those that first receive visual information—process space and time together.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained ... Brain tissue samples were gathered from the frontal cortex, the area of the brain associated with thinking and ...

New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

Levels of microplastics in the brain have shot up 50% in just eight years, according to samples tested by researchers in New ...

Discover how your mind filters out distractions. New research reveals the specialized neural mechanisms that actively block ...