When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must figure out how fast to swim and how to steer to ...

What if your brain has already decided to approach someone before you're even aware of it? Scientists say they found a neural ...

How does the brain make sense of what we see, hear and feel, and transform these separate signals into a coherent perception of the world?

We all hunger for information. Sometimes this drive leads us to a tangible reward, such as looking up reviews to find the ...

A: The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) calculates and compares the values of different choices. Researchers found that about 20% of recorded OFC neurons specifically signal the intrinsic value of expected ...

Entering and manipulating dreams may sound like science fiction, but for Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Walter Gonzalez, these ...

Research reveals how musical improvisation alters prefrontal cortex activity and engages reward structures in adults and children.

Your brain has something surprising in common with the ocean: waves! Electrical activity washes over the brain's surface, creating what are called traveling brain waves or neural traveling waves.

Neurotransmitters are the words our brain cells use to communicate with one another. For years, researchers relied on tools that provided limited temporal and spatial resolution to track changes in ...

How neurons transform inputs into outputs is a fundamental building block of brain computation. Here, we measure neurons’ IO functions in the awake and intact brain, where ongoing network activity ...