Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop after birth as the result of both innate biological processes and life experiences. Past studies suggest that the initial development of brain ...

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex predicts the future by detecting novel stimuli and forming short-term memory ...

One of the most controversial debates in cognitive neuroscience concerns the cortical locus of semantic knowledge and processing in the human brain. Experimental data revealed the existence of various ...

Fear is hardwired into our brains from the moment we’re born. Loud noises and creepy-crawly insects just naturally give us [… ...

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 study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

Researchers at Stony Brook University used genetic manipulation in a laboratory brain model to demonstrate that neurosteroids ...

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 ...

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

They concluded that the way the cortex is wired, with loops of connected neurons, makes novelty detection an automatic emergent property of the network. "This is a leap forward in understanding how ...

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

Scientists crack the code of the decision-making process in the human brain. Prefrontal cortex is the key to decision-making ...