The brain reads injustice as a threat—to status, to safety, to the predictability of social rules—and encodes the evidence of ...

For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of ...

There is a persistent anxiety in brand storytelling that runs beneath the surface of nearly every conversation about reaching international audiences: that the closer a story is to its origin, the ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have sought alternatives to silicon for building molecular electronics. The vision was elegant; the reality proved far more complex. Within a device, molecules ...

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Abstract: Existing fMRI-to-image reconstruction methods have made progress in decoding visual images from fMRI but continue to struggle with capturing finer details like shape and color. Inspired by ...

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The present set of five experiments assessed whether context-dependent memory effects were evident within verbal working memory. Participants completed an item-recognition verbal working memory task ...

To navigate a dynamically changing environment, the brain must encode not only individual sensory or motor features but also their temporal interdependencies. A canonical example of this encoding ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...