A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

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 ...

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 ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

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

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

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

New research reveals how the brain rapidly adapts to sensory changes using a feedback loop between the olfactory cortex and the olfactory bulb.

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 ...

Figure 1: Spectral representations of complex sounds that produce a pitch perception of 62.5 Hz. In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to address the question of where in the ...