Your Brain Pays Attention to Unfamiliar Voices During Sleep
The ability allows the brain to balance sleep with responding to environmental cues. A good night’s sleep is not as simple as it appears. While…
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The ability allows the brain to balance sleep with responding to environmental cues. A good night’s sleep is not as simple as it appears. While…
What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe and admiration? Is it the thrill…
Neuroscientists uncover how the brain perceives sensory information – and how this process can malfunction. The brain is the most complex organ in our body…
Smell has the power to transport us across time and space. It could be the sweet fragrance of jasmine, or the musty scent of algae….
A computer network closely modeled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images — and…
Study: Weak internal connections linked to body shame and weight preoccupation. New research has discovered that the strength of the connection between our brain and…
Coffee drinkers intuitively recognize the pleasure of swallowing a smooth, rich brew versus a watery one. Aside from added cream or sugar, the coffee itself…
Rattlesnakes increase their rattling rate as potential threats approach, and this abrupt switch to a high-frequency mode makes listeners, including humans, think they’re closer than…
Lessons from the pandemic could inform how to deal with other global crises that require collective action, like climate change. Superspreading events have proven to…
Imagined Music and Silence Trigger Similar Brain Activity Imagining a song triggers similar brain activity as moments of silence in music, according to a pair of studies recently…
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize…
Researchers report that they have developed a method to combine three brain-imaging techniques to more precisely capture the timing and location of brain responses to…
Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when we…
‘Scintillating starburst’ offers insights into visual processing. A new class of illusion, developed by a visual artist and a psychology researcher, underscores the highly constructive…
Special neurons in the hippocampus may be involved in time-related features of memory. Neurons in the hippocampus fire during specific moments in time, according to…
New study and a review of decades of data pushes the memory clock back over a year, but the study confirms everyone is different. On…
Acoustical environments can prevent, reduce behavioral and psychological symptoms. Designing a soundscape to improve the quality of life for an individual is centered on putting…
Innovative experiment demonstrates the resilience of the healthy human brain despite deep general anesthesia. Millions of surgical procedures performed each year would not be possible…