A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore ...

For years, serotonin has been linked to anxiety, but new research flips the script—higher serotonin in the cerebellum might ...

Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team led by Prof. Dr Henrik Kaessmann at the ...

A recent study reveals that daily caffeine consumption may result in reduced gray matter volume in the brain. Despite this, ...