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

Taking all this together, the spontaneous activity reshaping hypothesis – our new theory that imagination carves images out ...

When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded.

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

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

Whether speaking or swinging a bat, precise and adaptable timing of movement is essential for everyday behavior. Although we do not have sensory organs like eyes or a nose to sense time, we can keep ...

Each technological development impacts human brains in a different way. But when the development is a more efficient brain than any human possesses, the impact could be significant for the most ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. That’s a key idea ...

The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...

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

Your brain is currently expending about a fifth of your body's energy, and almost none of that is being used for what you're ...