Every day, the brain is flooded with fleeting impressions, yet only a small fraction hardens into the stories we carry for a lifetime. Scientists are now tracing that winnowing process in remarkable ...

Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order and randomness is the secret to learning, memory, and adaptability. When ...

Memory doesn’t live only in the brain. Scientists are uncovering signs that cells throughout the body can remember, too. These findings are starting to challenge old ideas about how and where memory ...

The human brain is not a passive recorder of events, it is an active simulator that constantly rehearses futures, rewrites ...

How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It explores how physical components, such as neurons and their connections, give rise ...

A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain's navigation system, which may help us better understand early ...

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a path—without ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...