The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

Scientists say different parts of the brain are programmed to process information over different lengths of time. Some areas ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...

Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies' sensory ...

A new protein sensor lets researchers see incoming brain signals, revealing how neurons process information tied to memory ...

Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

Alpha oscillations – once thought to be the brain “idling” – are turning out to be way more important than we gave them ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

Betty faces a seemingly simple choice between an apple and a donut. But as we'll soon discover, the brain's decision-making process is far from straightforward. Betty is standing before the healthy ...