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 ...

Researchers at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, led by Wolf Singer, have made a new discovery in understanding fundamental brain processes. For the first time, the team ...

Researchers discovered that caffeine not only improves alertness, but also strengthens the communication between areas in the ...

This post is in response to Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory By Paul L. Nunez PhD Does consciousness arise exclusively from complex interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized stage of sensory processing. Instead, it is a core function operating at ...

André Fenton (left) is the Director of the Center for Neural Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University (NY, USA) researching how the brain processes information and stores ...

Even while listening, the brain attempts to anticipate the next words. This is the conclusion reached by a current study conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by PD Dr. Patrick ...

Both human brains and computers depend on memory, or the capacity to retain information in an easily accessible way. The primary distinction is that computer information processing requires the ...