When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

This dual structural and functional approach allows direct correlation between brain anatomy and its functioning. The generated data, equivalent to 22 years of HD video, is now freely accessible. This ...

A new brain imaging study published in the journal Neuroscience00304-5/fulltext) has found that authoritarian attitudes on both the political left and right are linked to specific structural ...

Adagio Medical Holdings, Inc. ("Adagio" or "the Company"), a leading innovator in catheter ablation technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, today announced that it has received ...

My concept of a church steeple is based on putting many examples in a file in my brain labeled “church steeples.” It was a mind-expanding experience for me to learn that other people process ...

Computational Brain Anatomy Laboratory, located in the CIC at the Douglas Institute, McGill University ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

The study reveals that when the right brain is damaged, people’s capacity for reasoning suffers, implying that this area is central.

PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...