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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...

Consciousness may be millions of years old, fueled by primal brain circuits rather than the human cortex alone.

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

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 ...