This valuable study combines experiments and theory to investigate the putative role of spontaneous correlated activity in establishing aligned topographic maps of neural activity in higher-order ...

This study uses electrophysiological recordings, causal manipulations of activity, and modeling to investigate how the maintenance of a spatial location in working memory affects the representation of ...

Tinnitus is the perception of a sound without any external source. In many cases, psychological disorders co-exist with tinnitus such as depression, and result in the inability to work or even suicide ...

For instance, young adults who studied language intensively increased their cortical thickness in language areas. Similarly, ...

The structure of two regions in the left hemisphere, which are crucial for language, were different in people who were good ...

One was the anterior part of the temporal lobe. The left temporal pole helps associate and categorise different types of ...

One definition of ‘computer’ is, ‘one who computes’. So you can make a conscious computer by procreating! Your conscious offspring, suitably educated, will be capable of elaborate computation, maybe ...

Researchers have developed MovieNet, an AI model inspired by the human brain, to understand and analyze moving images with ...

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42% in 2015) and almost one in four young people aged 16-24 say ...

Two regions in the left hemisphere of the brain, which are crucial for language, are different in people who are good at ...

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have a behavioural disorder, nor are they lazy, or ...

A thinner, more efficient cortex with larger surface areas and increased myelination likely underlies the left-hemispheric ...