The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...

The human brain is constantly managing streams of information that move at very different speeds. Some signals require ...

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

The secret behind insects' lightning-fast reactions could offer a blueprint for more energy-efficient robots and self-driving cars, according to a new study challenging our understanding of how brains ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

So-called “offline states”—when a person isn’t thinking about much and their attention is free to wander —give the brain an opportunity to revisit and process its recent experiences, says Erin Wamsley ...