Smaller, shallow brain folds in the posteromedial cortex show greater thinning with age and Alzheimer’s disease, and their ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

While different parts of the brain process outside stimuli like sight and touch, the cerebral cortex puts these stimuli together to drive decision-making and problem-solving, among other functions.

Using rare brain recordings from patients, scientists found that the thalamus helps trigger visual awareness. The study ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...

The cerebral cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is the central driver of various human capabilities, including decision-making, perception, language and memory. Understanding how the morphology ...

Answering the question of when consciousness emerges is deeply tied to the mystery of what it actually is and how it can be ...

Jeffrey Lawson was born prematurely in February 1985. Shortly afterward, the newborn had to undergo heart surgery without anesthesia. After Jeffrey Lawson’s death, his mother was told that her son had ...

Review Article Published: May 2007 Binocular depth perception and the cerebral cortex Andrew J. Parker Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 379–391 (2007) Cite this article ...

To make memory recall faster, Musk suggests developing your own mental shortcuts like symbols, pictures, or codes that represent ideas or numbers. These custom “triggers” help your brain retrieve ...

While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it ...