Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies' sensory systems gather data about our environments at a rate of a trillion bits per ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have discovered that the brain reorganizes itself extensively across ...

Are the same technologies that promise to make us smarter making us less capable of the mental work that builds understanding ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for ...

A computer rendering of a parvalbumin-positive neuron, which researchers were able to produce in large quantities for the first time in in-vitro models. Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible ...

The human brain takes about 100 ms to process information, then about another 100 ms to decide to move in response. Did you just blink reading that sentence? That's about how long we're talking about.

New neuroscience is challenging our understanding of the dying process—bringing opportunities for the living. The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some ...

A new review study shows menopause is associated with distinct structural changes in the female brain, including decreases in ...

In everyday life, it is common to hear someone say, "I just had a thought" or "the thought just occurred to me." For instance, one may have a thought about an event that took place during the last ...