Study offers new clues about how the brain processes near-death scares and other traumatic autobiographical memories.
Neuroimaging reveals our brains combine information from different categories of sensory information to drive abstract knowledge.
Pooled data reveals shift workers perform worse on tasks associated with attention, working memory, and information processing than non-shift workers.
Researchers say the relative silence between firing spikes of neurons help the brain to encrypt information.
Researchers report ADHD and conduct disorder exhibit similar, overlapping changes in the brain.
Findings reveal the brain may optimize visual information processing depending on its conscious state.
The strongest predictor of musical skill acquisition is intelligence, followed by musical aptitude.
A new MRI study reveals how domestication has affected the brain morphology in rabbits, specifically in the prefrontal cortex and amygdala.
People fail to process information that contradicts their convictions. A new study explains the neural processes that contribute to confirmation bias.
A new study reveals baby brain, the increased forgetfulness and inattention some women experience during pregnancy does, in fact, exist.
People are able to form the correct mental model of puzzles from either visual or haptic experiences alone and are able to predict haptic properties from visual ones. Findings suggest humans segment scenes into objects without explicit boundary cues by using purely statistical information.
Fetal exposure to phthalates alters cognitive processing in young children, a new study reports. Children whose mothers were exposed to higher levels of phthalates during pregnancy exhibited slower information processing skills. Male children were most likely to experience difficulties.
