An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

By activating the visual cortex electrically, those modules generate simple spots or patterns of light that the brain can try ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

People who pull an all-nighter or work back-to-back overnight shifts lose more than alertness. A growing body of primary ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen, and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

A neuroimaging study in Italy found that autobiographical memories are represented across the hippocampus and interconnected ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

Researchers discover rotating spiral brain waves that travel across cortical networks, acting as a space-and-time clock for motor action.