Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading ...

How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Hebrew ...

Challenging the classic view, two cognitive scientists argue in a new review that categorization is not a late, specialized ...

A layer deep in the cerebral cortex, which is the innermost layer of the mammalian brain, has recently been found to play a role in the regulation of brain states associated with wakefulness and ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

How does the brain categorize objects? Scientists reveal that categorization is a predictive process where the brain prepares an action plan before perceiving a stimulus.

How fast is the sense of smell? Researcher found that the olfactory bulb identifies odors in 50ms, using temporal filtering ...

How does Jannik Sinner manage to hit the ball at exactly the right moment, with remarkable precision? And how do we, in ...