During ketamine anesthesia, the brain's nerve cells fall silent—as consciousness returns, they begin to reconnect. For the ...

Summary: Researchers discovered the first definitive neural evidence of how the brain creates and reuses abstract symbols to think creatively. The research tracks the neural substrates of ...

If you ask a child to draw an animal that doesn't exist, they'll often cobble together components from real ones—say, the body of a seal with an elephant's trunk, four octopus arms, and one lizard eye ...

As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled movements in a virtual reality (VR) world using only brain signals. The study, ...

Neuroscience research has contributed significantly to understanding alterations in brain structure and function after ischemic stroke. Technical limitations have excluded the spinal cord from imaging ...

Humans exert cognitive control over cognitive functions. Meta-learning is one such metacognitive ability, in which people learn how to efficiently learn the same or similar tasks through experience.

Brain–computer interfaces can enable communication for people with paralysis by transforming cortical activity associated with attempted speech into text on a computer screen. Communication with brain ...

Although a fly's motor neurons are few, it performs remarkable aerial and terrestrial feats. A wiring diagram recently created of the motor circuits in the central nervous system of the fruit fly is ...

The ventral premotor cortex (PMv) and primary motor cortex (M1) represent critical nodes of a parietofrontal network involved in grasping actions, such as power and precision grip. Here, we ...