The researchers then compared each medium’s brain waves during trance-state writing to during normal writing. Researchers found that during a trance experienced mediums had less activity in areas ...

I don't care anymore, turn that off." That's the alpha-beta waves' job — to yank one thought off stage to let another on.

We can hear sounds because our ears turn sound vibrations from the air, into signals that are sent to our brain. We can’t hear all levels of sounds. Sound waves with very high frequencies are ...

Patterns of neural activity known as alpha waves, long thought to originate in the thalamus, may actually stem from a different brain region entirely. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...