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When you get better at a skill-recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game-sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

Some fish, it turns out, are morning people. They swim hard during daylight, sleep mostly at night, and tend to live longer.

A randomized placebo controlled experiment shows that increasing noradrenaline during learning does not improve basic memory ...

Motor imagery or imagined limb movements can power brain–computer interface (BCI) devices, such as prostheses and wheelchairs, supporting rehabilitation for people with neuromusculoskeletal disorders.

A new neuroimaging study suggests that people who frequently control their dreams share distinct structural brain patterns. These networks bridge the areas responsible for self-reflection, visual ...

Researchers challenge the long-standing "neural independence" theory, showing that learning actually makes neurons more ...

The brain may organize emotions like locations on a map, revealing a hidden system that helps people interpret changing ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

A University of Iowa-led research team has documented in humans that physical exercise sparks an increase in brain waves ...