Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

A Steinway Spirio player piano can capture every detail of a performance and reproduce it, keystroke for keystroke. In ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Neuroscience has proven that our brains has a hidden "sixth sense" that helps us to adapt to seeing the world without sight ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution. Using mouse models ...

A new study published in Science Advances presents a method that converts human brain activity into coherent, descriptive text—even when the brain is not actively processing language. Instead of ...

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

That sharp flinch during a violent movie scene is familiar to many people. A hand slams, a body falls, and your own muscles ...

What does dying feel like? By studying patients who’ve suffered near-death experiences, scientists are one step closer to ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.