FeaturedNeuroscience·September 27, 2022·4 min readWhat Brings Our Senses and Thoughts Together?Study reveals the role the neocortex plays in our ability to think, recall events, and make decisions.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·May 23, 2021·5 min readThoughts Bring Prostheses to LifeUsing virtual reality technology, researchers found the faulty alignment of prosthetics resulted in a measurable loss in performance for users.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 24, 2020·4 min readAI Helps Scientists Understand Brain Activity Behind ThoughtsA new AI system helps researchers better understand the brain computations that underlie thought.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 10, 2020·5 min readThat Little Voice in Your Head, If You Have It, May Be Aligning Your ThoughtsA significant number of people feel their thoughts take on the form of an inner voice, a new study reports.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·August 4, 2020·3 min readHow Thoughts Could One Day Control Electronic Prostheses, WirelesslyA new wireless intracortical brain-computer interface neuroprosthesis is capable of gathering and transmitting accurate neural signals, using a tenth of the power required by current wire-enabled systems.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·July 14, 2020·4 min readDiscovery of “Thought Worms” Opens Window to the MindResearchers have discovered a brain-based marker for new thoughts, reporting people experience more than 6,000 thoughts per day. The study reports a new method that can detect indirectly when one thought ends and another begins.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·September 24, 2019·4 min readMice, like humans, fidget when deep in thoughtJust like humans, mice fidget more while deep in thought.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·June 27, 2019·4 min readCould prosthetic limbs one day be controlled by human thought?Having identified a new, simpler way to study neural activity, researchers believe they are on track to creating a compact, low power and potentially wireless brain sensor that could make thought-controlled prosthetic limbs ubiquitous.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·March 18, 2019·4 min readResearch into aphasia reveals new interactions between language and thoughtProblems with counterfactive interpretation in those with aphasia are associated with a reduction of propositional, lexical and syntactic cognition.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 9, 2018·7 min readNavigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of ThinkingResearchers propose a new theory of human thinking, suggesting our brain's navigation system is key to thinking. This may explain why our knowledge seems to be organized in spatial fashion.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosVisual Neuroscience·January 17, 2018·6 min readRecording a Thought’s Fleeting Trip Through the BrainUC Berkeley researchers report the prefrontal cortex coordinates activity in order to help us act in response to perception.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·May 11, 2017·4 min readBeauty Requires ThoughtResearchers report distractions can detract from the experience of beauty, and sensuous pleasures can also be beautiful.Read More
