What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

You’ve likely heard that the brain isn’t fully developed until someone’s around 26 years old. But did you know that the brain rewires itself throughout the lifetime? University of Cambridge ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has a unique “connectivity fingerprint” tied to its role in cognition, from ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

Timothy Ryan, PhD, runs a lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, where the team focuses on studying synapses and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Like most teams, they kick around lots of ...

All around us is a rich world for us to experience. Inside our minds, we have our own understanding of the world, ourselves, and everything in it. How does the brain do any of this? There’s all this ...