How can we see what neurons deep in the cortex are doing during behavior? Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for...
Cognition
Our Brain is a Prediction Machine that is Always Active
Our brain works a bit like the autocomplete function on your phone – it is constantly trying to guess the next word when...
Language as a Marker of the Mind
In a discussion article published in Cognition, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University...
The effect of the color red on brain waves
Red has a signaling and warning effect. Is this color specificity also reflected in the brain? Researchers at the Ernst...
How visual information travels from the retina to the midbrain
New Neuropixels technology provides evidence of mosaic-like neural connections For the first time, neuroscientists from...
The hemispheres are not equal: How the brain is not symmetrical
Although the brain is divided into two halves, it is not exactly a mirror image. Some functions are processed more on the...
Neural Synchronization is Strongest to the Spectral Flux of Slow...
Neural activity in the auditory system synchronizes to sound rhythms, and brain–environment synchronization is thought...
Gamma rhythms – a phenomenon simpler than thought?
Gamma rhythms in the brain are neither self-sustaining nor regular. But many earlier models assumed just that. ESI...
Duets on the Brain
International Research Team Studies Neuronal Processes Involved in Piano Playing Making music together is a unique...
A brain network for social attraction
Specialized nerve cells in the zebrafish visual system enable recognition of conspecifics Humans are famously social...