The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal’s brain ... To deepen their understanding of these findings, the team ...

A study has found that the cortex acts like a "memory machine", encoding new experiences and predicting the near future, ...

Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

Neuroscientists analyzed how the prefrontal cortex filters through conflicting stimuli to determine when, say, it’s safe to ...

"They just need to change their mindset,” some leaders say. Mindset is powerful and malleable. But we can have greater impact ...

In a nutshell The brain uses active “circuit breakers” to suppress irrelevant information, rather than passively letting distractions fade away – a fundamental discovery that changes our understanding ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

A new mathematical model sheds light on how the brain processes different ... Previous research found that the response of single brain cells in the prefrontal cortex during decision-making is ...

Scientists discover a brain pathway that helps suppress fear, offering new hope for anxiety and PTSD treatment.

A new model allows researchers to predict how decision-making changes when specific neural connections are strengthened or ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's ... To deepen their understanding of these findings, the team built a neural network model of the auditory cortex and trained it to detect ...