A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Neuroscientists have carefully studied how synapses only have access to their own “local” information, yet collectively they ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

The cerebral cortex is the brain’s outer layer, the main site of conscious perceptions, judgments and the planning and execution of movements. “Scientists have been studying the structure and anatomy ...