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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I teach a course on the relationship between social media and society at Durham College. As part of their assessments, I ask ...

Researchers at CU Anschutz are studying the effect of psychedelic mushrooms on patients with treatment-resistant depression.

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