A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new—and important or just "background noise." ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Almost any activity has the potential to lead to flow, an almost Zen-like psychological state between boredom and worry.

Scientists have developed a geometric deep learning method that can create a coherent picture of neuronal population activity during cognitive and motor tasks across experimental subjects and ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

Research scientists in Switzerland have developed and tested a robust AI model that automatically segments major anatomic ...

Creative depictions of cold water swimming show how writers' insights can advance knowledge of the senses hardest to describe ...