brain research

What happens during our last moments? Phenomena like near-death experiences, white light and tunnels, conversations with higher powers, and seeing friends and family that have already passed are more than fascinating. Given the number of…

University of Pittsburg auditory neuroscientists published a paper in Communications Biology describing how a machine learning model helps explain how the brain recognizes the meaning of communication sounds. The algorithm used models of…

We all love a good movie. They transport us, taking us to worlds and environments many of us won't see in our everyday lives. Movies and the stories they tell can cause us to laugh, weep, feel, and think, sometimes changing us in…

Traditional tests and grades now used may measure learning less accurately than scans of the brain, according to a study published in Science Advances. This news could upend how educators craft curricula and reveal a hidden link in the…

A new meta-analysis on the effects of cognitive, leisure, physical, and social activities is in the August 10, 2022, online issues of Neurology®, the American Academy of Neurology medical journal. Past studies have shown that leisure…

Have you ever felt exhausted after an intense mental day at work? After an exam at school? Researchers have new findings that help explain your exhaustion after vigorous mental gymnastics. It isn't all in your head. Their studies,…

Virtually everything involves processes. When they evolve, you need to stay on top of them. We need an easy way to keep up. A new study by neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT looks at circuitry that helps…

UCLA research shows a little night music prompts a big response from the brain, except in one key area. A unique study of brain activity in the cerebral cortex of epilepsy patients found there was a robust response to sound during sleep…

Risk surrounds us. Researchers in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel set out to discover how we look at risk and developed a new method to determine how society perceives it. The meaning of risk differs from individual…

According to researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Bonn, the brain has neurons that fire specifically during certain mathematical operations. Some neurons are active exclusively during addition and others during subtraction. The…