Researchers have recorded direct evidence that the human hippocampus continues to process spoken words, grammar, and meaning ...

Picking up a cup of coffee, flipping a light switch or grabbing a door handle don't require much apparent thought. But behind the curtain, the brain performs feats to coordinate these seemingly simple ...

A fundamental goal of cognitive neuroscience is to understand how information is encoded and the mechanisms that improve encoding efficiency in the brain. Regulating the response covariability in the ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

Mouse brain activity was used to recreate 10-second videos, offering a new way to study how vision is represented in the ...

Tsukuba, Japan—People experience a sense of familiarity from those who provide them with food and care on a daily basis. For children and pets, remembering the faces of such individuals is crucial for ...

Every day, various types of sensory information fromthe external environment are transferred to the brainthrough different modalities and then processed to generate a series of coping behaviors. Among ...

To understand the full relationship between brain activity and behavior, scientists need a way to map this relationship for all of the neurons across a whole brain, something that has so far remained ...