People fail to process information that contradicts their convictions. A new study explains the neural processes that contribute to confirmation bias. Read More
If you're playing video games to help kill time during social distancing, you might be improving your visual attention abilities. Researchers found experienced gamers have faster information processing abilities and can allocate more cognitive power to individual visual stimuli. Playing video games can cause long-term changes in the brain and lead to improvements in temporal visual selective attention. Read More
Neuroimaging reveals our brains combine information from different categories of sensory information to drive abstract knowledge. Read More
Do you know how many milliliters of blood is delivered to the brain per heartbeat, or whether you experience pain during brain surgery? Researchers explore five things you probably didn't know about the human brain. Read More
Study identifies a short gene segment crucial for brain development and information processing. The absence of the gene segment induces altered social behaviors, learning difficulties, and memory deficits, which are hallmarks of a subset of ASD. Read More
Study reveals caffeine may be a useful tool to study information and cognitive processing. Read More
Tenacity, a newly developed video game that promotes mindfulness, alters connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the inferior parietal cortex. These areas of the brain are critical for attention. After playing the game for a short period, participants reported improvements in attention. Read More
The strongest predictor of musical skill acquisition is intelligence, followed by musical aptitude. Read More
To accurately perceive another person, your neural representation of that person has to match the pattern in the persons' brain when they think about themselves. Read More
The human brain acts like an indexing system to help compose the meaning of abstract concepts. Read More
Entropy during consciousness is higher than during unconscious states. Read More
Combining neuroimaging and a constructed virtual reality town, researchers found the brain uses three different systems to perceive environment. One system allows us to recognize a place, another helps navigate through that location, and the third helps navigate from one place to another. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps encode location recognition, while the retrosplenial complex allows for mentally mapping the locations of specific places. Read More
