Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Brain scientists looked inside the open skulls of 16 epilepsy patients and tracked how a thought develops and moves.

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Attention depends on the brain’s ability to filter out distractions, but new research suggests this works best when ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, ...

Are you already feeling your New Year's motivation fading? It's not a lack of willpower; it's your brain's neurobiology playing a nasty trick on you.

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Scientists discerned that a person’s neural and behavioral outcomes shifted when simply vividly imagining a positive experience.

Whether the brain responds to an external stimulus or not depends significantly on the balance between areas of excitation and inhibition in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Synaptic connections in the ...