Psilocybin appears to 'loosen up' patterns of brain activity. (Alllex/E+/Getty Images) Just one insightful psychedelic trip ...

Scientists using precision fMRI have revealed that the human motor cortex alternates between effector-specific regions and a somato-cognitive action network (SCAN) linked to whole-body action planning ...

Ever heard of getting a "dopamine hit" from something you enjoy? These exciting moments also appear to influence memory, ...

There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.

This important cross-species study tests whether the corpus callosum contains parallel, segregated pathways for ipsilateral and contralateral visual-field information, rather than mixed inputs from ...

There is mounting evidence that playing music, or even listening to it, can delay or reverse the onset of normal age-related ...

Depression is a debilitating mental health disorder characterized by persistent low mood, a loss of interest in everyday ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

According to sleep memory theory, dreaming sleep is essential for consolidation of memory. Daydreaming, when we're awake and ...

Teaching toddlers adaptive skills like social interaction and self-care can protect their brains from the effects of prenatal stress.

Modality-agnostic decoders leverage modality-invariant representations in human subjects' brain activity to predict stimuli irrespective of their modality (image, text, mental imagery).