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

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

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

Researchers studied the mechanisms that learn to suppress instinctive fear responses. The study has implications beyond the laboratory. Could aid in developing therapeutics for anxiety, and ...

Newborns are expert, super keen observers of adult lives. It’s like they’re on apprenticeship. They’re watching our faces, ...

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Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch ...

The illustration represents how sounds are encoded in the cerebral cortex, with neurons (at right) using "echoing" activity to track auditory stimuli to change and improve the brain's predictions of ...