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

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked neural pathway that helps control human hand and arm movements. The ...

Working memory is a cognitive function that is essential for carrying out everyday activities and temporarily retaining information.

By tagging neurons with molecular "barcodes," researchers have mapped connections among thousands of neurons in the mouse brain with unprecedented speed and resolution. The approach could expand ...

Learning French, reading the latest Andy Weir novel, hanging out with friends for St. Patrick’s Day — language is central to all these everyday activities. Seemingly effortless from childhood, ...

Stress can reshape a leader’s brain and influence their performance under pressure. Here’s why some leaders thrive while others struggle.

Signals relayed to motor neurons from the brain enable muscle movement, but these signals typically pass through spinal interneurons before they reach their destination. How the brain and this highly ...

Until now, scientists have struggled to understand how the brain processes these sensations separately, as they share overlapping neural pathways from the spinal cord to the brain. Both stimuli are ...