Being able to understand speech is essential to our evolution as humans. Hearing lets us perceive the same word even when spoken at different speeds or pitches, and also gives us extra sensitivity to ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

Neuroscientists have long dreamed of watching thoughts unfold as they happen, without disturbing the fragile tissue that produces them. That vision is suddenly closer to reality, as glowing neurons ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...

Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. The three-dimensional recordings could provide ...

A study tracking thousands of neurons shows how the brain separates memory content from context to support flexible recall.

A single damaged protein inside one brain cell may seem insignificant. Yet new research shows how that small mistake can ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...

Feb. 12, 2002 — -- Most have felt the chill of a winter wind, the dull sting of poking a toe in icy water or the cool taste of a cough drop. But until recently, scientists haven't really ...