These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded.

The brain is our body’s command center, the control tower for our body and mind—no wonder it’s the focus of intense research across the globe, with so much interest in figuring out the mysteries of ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Whether speaking or swinging a bat, precise and adaptable timing of movement is essential for everyday behavior. Although we do not have sensory organs like eyes or a nose to sense time, we can keep ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...