Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...
The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of our lives, saving us time by seamlessly filling in a word before we can type ...
A recent article-in-press study published in the journal Communications Biology shows that seeing a new face or place activates different parts of the brain in rapid sequence within the first few ...
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 ...
It is a dogma in neuroscience that certain brain cells respond in the same way to the same thing. Specific neurons always fire, for example, when we see particular shapes and colours; other neurons ...
How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers at Reichman University's Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology and the Dina ...
Exercise is often described as one of the best things we can do for the brain. It can sharpen memory, support mood, and lower the risk of cognitive decline later in life.
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh In a previous piece, I argued that introspection may be our most direct ...
New research shows that in anticipating others' words, we take into account a larger linguistic structure, focusing on a word’s surroundings within groups of words rather than only what word comes ...