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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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Featured Neuroscience

·October 3, 2024·6 min read

Your Brain Divides the Day Into “Chapters” Based on Priorities

New research shows that the brain divides the day into "chapters" based on what a person focuses on. These mental boundaries aren't solely prompted by changes in surroundings but also by internal goals and priorities. In experiments using audio narratives, participants' brains organized events differently depending on whether they focused on specific details. This study suggests that how we experience and remember events is influenced by both context and what matters most to us at the time.

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·November 25, 2025·7 min read

Your Brain Has a Built-In Isolation Mode

New research uncovers the exact immune-to-brain pathway that drives the loss of social motivation during sickness. Scientists showed that when the cytokine IL-1β binds to receptors on neurons within the dorsal raphe nucleus, it activates a circuit that reduces social interaction.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·June 17, 2025·5 min read

Your Brain Instantly Sees What You Can Do, AI Still Can’t

New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords—like walking, climbing, or swimming—even without conscious thought. Using MRI scans, researchers found unique activity in visual brain regions that went beyond simply processing objects or colors, revealing deep neural encoding of “affordances,” or possible actions.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 4, 2022·3 min read

Your Brain Is a Prediction Machine That Is Always Active

The brain constantly acts as a prediction machine, continuously comparing sensory information with internal predictions.

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Featured Neuroscience

·November 4, 2025·4 min read

Your Brain Knows a Viral Message Before You Do

A large-scale brain imaging analysis reveals that our brains can forecast what kinds of messages will go viral. Researchers found that persuasive messages consistently activate brain regions associated with reward, empathy, and social understanding, predicting both personal preferences and public appeal. Interestingly, while emotional brain activity predicted message success in larger audiences, it did not in individuals who were scanned.

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·April 22, 2025·6 min read

Your Brain Learns From Fear, Thanks to Dopamine

New research reveals how dopamine helps the brain learn to avoid unpleasant outcomes by responding differently in distinct brain regions during negative experiences. In a study with mice, scientists tracked dopamine activity over time as animals learned to escape an adverse event, showing that one brain area adapted early in learning while another supported long-term avoidance behavior.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·September 13, 2021·6 min read

Your Brain Learns to Steer Your Attention Away From Disturbing Sounds

Researchers shed light on how the brain responds to unexpected sounds.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·May 17, 2025·5 min read

Your Brain Loves Deep Breathing, Science Explains Why

Breathwork, or the practice of intentionally controlling one’s breathing, has been shown to calm brain activity, reduce anxiety, and even ease symptoms of depression. Deep, slow breathing engages neural circuits that regulate emotional states, producing a measurable calming effect.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 10, 2025·4 min read

Your Brain Maps Actions Like It Maps Space

A new study shows that the human brain organizes action-outcome associations in cognitive maps, much like how it maps physical space for navigation. These action maps are formed in the hippocampus and communicate with the motor system to support goal-directed behaviors and flexible decision-making.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 23, 2025·6 min read

Your Brain Maps the Same Path Differently Every Time

New research shows that our brain’s internal map rewrites itself every time we navigate a familiar environment. Even when mice experienced identical virtual mazes with controlled sensory input, their hippocampal neurons activated in different patterns on each run.

Featured Neuroscience

·March 14, 2019·4 min read

Your brain may contain ‘time cells’ that help form long-term memories

New findings back up recent hippocampal research in rodents, providing evidence of a common hippocampal neural mechanism representing temporal information in episodic memory.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 20, 2025·3 min read

Your Brain Navigates Mental Maps Differently Than Real Ones

When you picture a map in your mind, your brain uses different pathways than when you actually look at one. In a study on spatial attention, participants recalled the map of France and judged which city was closer to Paris.