Mental processes
- New information on brain areas linked to tactile sense and metacognitive ability (22 Aug 2018)
- Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do (01 Jul 2018)
- DARPA's New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40% (27 Oct 2017)
- MIT neuroscientists build case for new theory of memory formation (24 Oct 2017)
- What Is Synesthesia? (18 Oct 2017)
- Learning during development is regulated by an unexpected brain region (18 Oct 2017)
- Brain waves reflect different types of learning (13 Oct 2017)
- Human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them: Study challenges traditional hierarchy of brain decoding; offers insight into how the brain makes perceptual judgements (10 Oct 2017)
- Studying bumblebees to learn more about human intelligence and memory (05 Oct 2017)
- How the brain encodes time and place: Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that is critical for forming episodic memories (25 Jul 2016)
- Decision-making involves a little known brain region in the thalamus (25 Jul 2016)
- Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use (25 Jul 2016)
- Humans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations (22 Jul 2016)
- How computers are learning to be creative (29 Jun 2016)
- Study validates monkey model of visual perception (14 Jun 2016)
- How the mind sharpens the senses (14 Jun 2016)
- 'Memory region' of brain also involved in conflict resolution: Hippocampus is involved in quick, successful decisions (28 May 2016)
- Rapid eye movements in sleep reset dream 'snapshots': Researchers find eye movements during REM sleep reflect brain activity patterns associated with new images (24 May 2016)
- This is your brain on communication (12 May 2016)
- Emotional brains 'physically different' from rational ones (09 May 2016)
- How the brain learns to distinguish between what is important and what is not (08 May 2016)
- Researchers find speedometer in the brain (07 May 2016)
- Hippocampus: In search of memory storage (07 May 2016)
- Researchers find brain area that integrates speech's rhythms (02 May 2016)
- Nietzsche on Dreams as an Evolutionary Time Machine for the Human Brain (21 Apr 2016)
- Bilingual brains better equipped to process information (11 Apr 2016)
- Pioneering Psychologist William James on Attention, Multitasking, and the Mental Habit That Sets Great Minds Apart (25 Mar 2016)
- 'Spectacular discovery' of how memories are formed and learning takes place (21 Dec 2015)
- Mathematically modeling the mind (21 Dec 2015)
- Smarter than you think: Fish can remember where they were fed 12 days later (11 Jul 2014)
- Play an Instrument? Musical Training Improves Brain Function (22 Jun 2014)