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

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

Animals, including humans, rely on multiple senses to navigate their environments and make decisions. This integration of ...

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

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 first study used functional MRI to examine brain activity while participants ... less complex ones in brain regions including the auditory cortex, which is the first cortical waystation ...

In particular, it will be important to understand how such functional segregation interacts with hemispheric lateralization, a feature of the auditory cortex that characterizes the human brain.

After imaging the auditory cortex of mice, a part of the cerebral cortex that processes sound, they found that groups of neurons responded not only to what sound was played, but also how novel it was.

After imaging the auditory cortex of mice, a part of the cerebral cortex that processes sound, they found that groups of neurons responded not only to what sound was played, but also how novel it was.

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

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 ...