Have you ever wondered how your brain creates thoughts or why something randomly popped into your head? It may seem like magic – but actually the brain is like a supercomputer inside your head that ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response. Get ...

We tend to think that we perceive reality as it is ... But given that both processes generate activity in the same regions, how does the brain keep reality straight? To investigate this question, ...

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William Wright receives funding from National Institutes of Health (NINDS) and the Schmidt Sciences. Takaki Komiyama receives funding from NIH, NSF, Simons Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and ...

Most of us think change is external. New city, new job, new person. Rearranging the furniture. Buying a yoga mat. Blocking a number. Setting a password for Instagram. Again. We think if we tweak the ...