Is consciousness something the brain produces, or is it woven into the fabric of reality itself? Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging long-held scientific assumptions by confronting ...

Patel and colleagues took 20 healthy adults and dropped them into a seven-day retreat that was part classroom, part monastery ...

Allen Institute researcher Jerome Lecoq points to one of the diagrams that was used in a study focusing on how the brain interprets optical illusions. (Allen Institute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Our brains ...

“We used deep visual neural networks to create numerical descriptions of objects so that we could understand the neurons’ ...

This pain sensation Rau is referring to, what many of us call a brain freeze, is the work of the trigeminal nerve. The ...

Decades of research have shown that, to make decisions, our brains gradually gather evidence for each option over time.

By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive parts of the neural pattern used ...

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that ...

October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...

The cells that line the blood vessels in our brains are highly selective. By deciding which molecules are allowed in and out ...

Most people want autism breakthroughs—but few know the crucial role brain donation plays in making them happen. Autism ...