While technology has simplified many aspects of life, growing evidence suggests that constant digital engagement may ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

For years, scientists have known that the heart has its own network of nerves, the intrinsic cardiac nervous system (ICNS), ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

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Photo: Esteban Villar-Rodríguez and César Ávila. The Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, led by researcher César Ávila, recently published an ...

As you fall asleep, your thoughts slow, your awareness fades, and the brain appears to rest. Yet, beneath that stillness, your brain is entering a state of remarkable activity. Signals continue to ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Source: CLIPAREA l Custom media / Shutterstock Until the late 1990s, most brain experts viewed the cerebellum as a motor-control specialist, responsible for balance, timing, and smooth movement. New ...