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Cognitive Neuroscience
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Thomas Edison was on to something...
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a "reality threshold" that is lower than it should be.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
A recent study highlights the astounding adaptability of the human brain.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.
Adolescents’ brains are highly capable, if inconsistent, during this critical age of exploration and development. They are also acutely tuned into rewards.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
A study shows that the brains of lonely individuals respond in odd ways to visual stimuli, while those of non-lonely people react similarly.
If you look into a mirror, you'll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn't what you think.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly "reconstructed" by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
Our brainwaves naturally synchronize with external stimuli like flickering lights. Here's how the phenomenon might boost learning.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
The study was small and didn't include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.