For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

Imagine arriving at a busy location with people moving around and a multitude of visual and other sensory cues vying for your ...

We often mistake the "aha!" moment of a clear explanation for actual mastery. The feeling of learning can be a psychological illusion, but we can spot the difference.

Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park sits right there in Vantage, a tiny town that most people blow past on their way to ...

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

Halassa writes in the context of a broader research program he calls algorithmic psychiatry, which argues that mental illness ...

When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

A group of specialized cells play a crucial part in clearing toxic proteins from inside the brain 1. But in people with Alzheimer’s disease, these cells malfunction, leading to the build up of tau ...

At the core of all human interaction is communication. But over the past four years, a fundamental shift has snuck up on us. After the introduction of ChatGPT ...

A new study suggests AI systems could be a lot more efficient. Researchers were able to shrink an AI vision model to 1/1000th ...