Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the well-controlled and yet highly nimble nature of ...
From steadying your steps to enhancing memory, science shows that musical training can rewire the brain in powerful ways. Recent research finds it can improve spatial awareness, cognitive flexibility, ...
Researchers released the first detailed map of smell receptors in the nose, organized into horizontal stripes that mirror the ...
For decades, neuroscientists assumed the inside of a mammal’s nose was essentially a jumble: more than a thousand types of ...
A team led by the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has identified a brain circuit ...
A team led by the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has identified a brain circuit ...
The simple act of navigating a new place alone sets off a cascade of activity in the brain, engaging systems that most of our ...
When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and ...