Open any introductory psychology textbook and you will find the same diagram: two boxes, one labeled “episodic memory” for ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is revealing that the brain’s ability to learn and its ability to move depend on the same razor-thin timing windows, sometimes as brief as 30 milliseconds.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story A neuroscientist argues that brain science points to the existence of an immaterial mind or soul, pointing to cases like split-brain patients and ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a distributed set of interconnected brain regions that has long been associated with internally oriented cognition, such as remembering the past, thinking about the ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

Researchers discover that rare axo-axonic synapses form a decentralized network of "broker" neurons to drive split-second fly ...

Mindful meditation may not only fail to reduce cognitive bias but, based on the study findings, may exacerbate stereotypes.

The image shows axo-axonic innervation in the nerve cord of the fruit fly. Dye-filled giant fiber axons (purple) serve as command neurons to drive escape behavior in the fly. A population of cells ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...