These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How does the brain think? – Tom, age 16, San ...

Neuroscience reveals the brain is shaped through relationships—not in isolation—challenging individualistic psychiatry and ...

Close your eyes and picture a coffee cup. Suddenly, the dark fills with shape, color, and texture. It’s a picture as vivid as ...

Seemingly unrelated diseases and conditions like Alzheimer's disease, obesity, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and ...

All around us is a rich world for us to experience. Inside our minds, we have our own understanding of the world, ourselves, and everything in it. How does the brain do any of this? There’s all this ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

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When the stomach is full, how does the brain know to stop eating? Scientists long assumed the answer lies mainly with neurons ...

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

A brief bout of physical exercise can create "ripples" of activity in your brain that help you store and retrieve memories.

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...