Humans anticipate events signaled by sensory cues. It is commonly assumed that two uncertainty parameters modulate the...
Cognition
Virtual “moonwalk” for science reveals distortions...
In order to orient ourselves in space, and to find our way around, we form mental maps of our surroundings. But what...
The Science of a Billboard Hit Song
Why is it that people find songs such as James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” UB40’s “Red, Red Wine,” or The...
Can our thoughts alter our brains?
Brain-computer interfaces have a structural impact on brain substance after one hour’s training. Brain-computer...
Continuous ratings of movie watching reveal idiosyncratic...
Visual aesthetic experiences unfold over time, yet most of our understanding of such experiences comes from experiments...
Mothers’ behavior influences bonding hormone oxytocin in babies
A new epigenetic study suggests that mothers’ behavior can also have a substantial impact on their children’s...
Why the language-ready brain is so complex
In a review article published in Science, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and...
Neuroimaging reveals hidden communication between brain layers...
Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and...
The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that...
Visual aesthetic evaluations, which impact decision-making and well-being, recruit the ventral visual pathway, subcortical...
A division of labor between power and phase coherence in...
Both time-based (when) and feature-based (what) aspects of attention facilitate behavior, so it is natural to hypothesize...