Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in ...

Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders shows that individuals with depression exhibit slower and less ...

While stress is an unfortunate fact of modern life, scientists are still learning how it affects us. Chronic stress, in ...

A team of Israeli researchers have exposed the brain mechanisms involved in recognising the emotional states of others, with ...

The researchers have exposed the brain mechanisms involved in recognizing the emotional states of others, with ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

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

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...