New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

Have you ever felt a shiver run down your spine while listening to your favorite song? You know, that little thrill that ...

Using a novel deep learning approach, we evaluated the predictive power of the functional connectome during various states (resting state, movie-watching, and n-back) on episodic memory and working ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

When we listen to music and find it beautiful, our brains engage in a different pattern of activity compared to when we ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a study ...

While stress is an unfortunate fact of modern life, scientists are still learning how it affects us. Chronic stress, in ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

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A study has found that the cortex acts like a "memory machine", encoding new experiences and predicting the near future, ...