Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

A new study suggests that four psychoactive compounds work in surprisingly similar ways, and that they break down the ...

These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has a unique “connectivity fingerprint” tied to its role in cognition, from ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

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An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...

All around us is a rich world for us to experience. Inside our minds, we have our own understanding of the world, ourselves, and everything in it. How does the brain do any of this? There’s all this ...

Every thought, memory, and feeling we experience depends on trillions of tiny connection points in the brain called synapses.

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...