A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems ...

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...

Research suggests that consciousness could extend far beyond just humans—every cellular creature in the universe, no matter how big or small, could be conscious, too. Studies show that single-cell ...

While forgetting where you left your keys might worry you, the specific details your brain still holds about your past reveal something far more important about your cognitive health in retirement.

If you’ve ever watched a garden on a warm day and noticed that bees seem to spend a disproportionate amount […] ...

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

Over the past year, as generative AI tools have become common in college classrooms, much of the conversation has centered on ...

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

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

Behavioral changes—such as anxiety, depression, irritability, apathy or agitation, collectively known as neuropsychiatric ...

Scientists at Arc Institute and Stanford University have discovered that age-related memory loss may be driven by changes in the gut rather than the brain itself. In a study published in Nature, ...

The visceral substrate of selfhood is not an add-on to cognitive self-awareness; in many frameworks, it is its foundation. Neuroimaging shows the anterior insula co-activating with the medial ...