Recent research shows that your brain doesn't pay attention in one smooth stream-instead, it switches focus in quick bursts, about 8 times per second. This process, called "attentional sampling," ...

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Our body movements profoundly impact how our brain processes sensory information. Historically, it was believed that the brain's primary motor cortex played a key role in modulating sensory ...

Utilizing optogenetics, researchers at Fujita Health University have selectively deactivated neural pathways with light, revealing new insights into how sensory and motor areas of the mouse brain ...

How does the brain process the complex flood of visual inputs? A new study at the University of Konstanz on larval zebrafish gives answers, combining behavioural experiments, advanced brain imaging ...

A new study of neural oscillations during varying stages of consciousness shows that anesthesia doesn’t just knock us out—it ...

The human brain, weighing roughly three pounds, runs the full spectrum of cognition, motor control, sensory processing, and ...

Scientists have built a working simulation of an entire adult fruit fly brain and connected it to a physics-based virtual ...

Those with chronic back pain aren’t just dealing with long-term discomfort; they actually feel sensory overload from a car ...