Their study, published in Nature Neuroscience, reveals that the brain appears to have its own version of circuit breakers—specialized neural mechanisms that actively shut down irrelevant ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are ...

Researchers have long known that the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex, plays a part in this experience of being aware of specific thoughts. The involvement of deeper brain ...