Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana is challenging a story neuroscience has told for decades. According to the conventional account ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

New research is revealing how the brain processes language, showing that multiple regions work together to handle meaning, sounds, and word boundaries. Studies demonstrate that language learning taps ...

Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram long enough, you’ll inevitably stumble across the line: “Your frontal lobe isn’t fully developed yet.” It’s become neuroscience’s go-to explanation for bad ...

Your brain is busy all day – planning, worrying, imagining, replaying conversations, solving problems. But when you’re not focusing on something specific, it still has a “go-to” mode it tends to ...

A key Alzheimer’s drug has finally revealed its secret. Researchers discovered that lecanemab works by activating the brain’s immune cells—but only through a specific part of the antibody called the ...