Your brain wasn't built for modern life. Here's why you struggle with parking, passwords, binge-watching, and even something as simple as splitting a check ...

Physical activity has emerged as one of the most potent behavioral interventions influencing brain function, learning, memory, and a wide range of cognitive ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) found that an increased fMRI signal is associated with reduced brain activity in ...

Princeton scientists found that the brain uses reusable “cognitive blocks” to create new behaviors quickly.

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...

Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.

Unless you've been living under a very large rock, or maybe only just escaping the marathon session of Battlefield 6 to end all marathon sessions of Battlefield 6, you may have noticed that PC memory ...