For the first time, a team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National ...

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Princeton scientists found that the brain uses reusable “cognitive blocks” to create new behaviors quickly.

Rapidly becoming a lost art, handwriting engages the mind in ways typing simply can’t replicate. In A Nutshell Handwriting ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

Consistent lifestyle adjustments are powerful for improving brain health and potentially slowing cognitive decline.

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...