Rutgers researchers found that the distribution of neural timescales across the cortex plays a crucial role in how ...

How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...

New research reveals that numbers in our visual field can subtly distort how we judge spatial positions, showing that perception is shaped by both numerical magnitude and object-based processing.

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

One potential underlying cause of symptoms in individuals with depression is an emotion- processing bias which causes them to have a stronger response to negative information more so than positive.

Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...

When we are awake, we seem to experience a continuous stream of sensations, reflections, memories, and impressions that make ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Life, for the most part, is bathed in light. The sun immerses the planet in energy that supports the vast majority of ecosystems that call Earth home. In a new study published in the journal iScience, ...