Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the well-controlled and yet highly nimble nature of ...

Nerve cells in the brain are constantly bombarded with information from different senses simultaneously. How can the brain prioritize what is most important?

Researchers used AI and deep learning to find a link between brain structure and navigation skills but found no measurable ...

Imagine a friend meets you at the train station and shows you the way to their house. You need to find your way back on your own. If, afterwards, you only remember the smell of a freshly baked bun ...

A growing body of research is converging on specific brain regions and networks that appear to generate conscious experience, from dreaming to waking awareness. Multiple independent lines of evidence ...

Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and the University of Tokyo have found a mathematical ...

A new spatial transcriptomic approach captures the regulation of splicing and polyadenylation sites during pubescent brain development at near-single-cell resolution. An international collaboration, ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...