The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in ...

Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in ...

Stimulation Clicker satirizes how it can feel to mainline the web by filling up the screen with internet videos, stock charts and Duolingo questions. There’s email to answer, too.

Chronic stress weakens the brain’s ability to process sounds, requiring louder stimuli to trigger normal responses, according to new research in mice.

A study has found that the cortex acts like a "memory machine", encoding new experiences and predicting the near future, ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

Scientists discover a brain pathway that helps suppress fear, offering new hope for anxiety and PTSD treatment.

Chronic stress does more than just affect mood—it may actually change the way we hear. Researchers found that stressed mice ...

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The human brain filters trillions of sensory inputs down to just 10 bits per second, a cognitive bottleneck shaped by ...