Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

Scientists from the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered how different brain regions work together to enable self-control—the ability to ...

By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive parts of the neural pattern used ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

Patel and colleagues took 20 healthy adults and dropped them into a seven-day retreat that was part classroom, part monastery ...

This pain sensation Rau is referring to, what many of us call a brain freeze, is the work of the trigeminal nerve. The ...

The cells that line the blood vessels in our brains are highly selective. By deciding which molecules are allowed in and out ...

Decades of research have shown that, to make decisions, our brains gradually gather evidence for each option over time.

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that ...

Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism ...