The sound of a fire alarm tells us to get out quickly to not get hurt, while the sight of a gas station sign can signal a ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a ...

The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...

Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies' sensory ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...

The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

Alpha oscillations – once thought to be the brain “idling” – are turning out to be way more important than we gave them ...