A Cambridge researcher’s review suggests the brain’s ancient subcortex may sustain basic awareness, reshaping how science and ...

The human brain can concurrently support a wide range of advanced mental functions, including attention, memory and the ...

To fill in the full picture of what is happening around us, our brains process attention systematically, taking in general ...

Music affects us so deeply that it can essentially take control of our brain waves and get our bodies moving. Now, ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

A new study shows that our brain’s attention system first prepares broadly, then zooms in on specific details within ...

Redefining Research: This study shows that a human-based brain organoid model can mimic key brain functions such as ...

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

Scientists have for the first time located the "mileage clock" inside a brain - by recording the brain activity of running ...

Researchers found cells that ‘fired’ in pattern that mirrored mileage clock by ticking along with distance travelled ...

The universe's first magnetic fields may have been much weaker than we first imagined — and were roughly equivalent to the strength of the magnetic activity within the human brain, according to a new ...

A huge project led by neuroscientists from all across the world has achieved world-first insight into what decision-making looks like in the brain. It marks the first time a single-cell, ...