The human brain is constantly picking up patterns in everyday experiences — and can do so without conscious thought, finds a study of neuronal activity in people who had electrodes implanted in ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the brain throughout the pregnancy timeline, from pre-conception to postpartum. Using precision brain imaging, researchers were able to map ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have shown that, just like declarative memories, short-term and long-term memories for motor skills form in different regions of the brain, with the cerebellum being ...

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor ...

Signals from those muscles control robotic joints, so the prosthesis is fully under control of the user’s brain. The system enabled people with below-knee amputations to walk more naturally and ...

Share on Pinterest New research shows exactly what happens to the brain during pregnancy. The question is: What does this mean for the pregnant person? Image credit: Studio Firma/Stocksy.

Major tracts of white matter - which provide connections between different parts of the brain - show evidence of increasing during pregnancy Pregnancy brain really does exist, according to one of ...

While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...

Scientists have captured one woman’s cognitive evolution into motherhood, taking repeated brain scans over three years to ...

Placed on the head, these sensors detect subtle brain wave activity, behaving like a pulse-detecting smartwatch, a blood pressure wrist cuff or a heart rate monitor. But this tool isn’t checking ...