For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

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The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever suggested. A wave of new research is revealing hidden layers in the brain’s ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

The researchers detected a specific delay of about 18 milliseconds between the waves in the visual cortex and the ...

When the mind goes blank it often feels like someone pulled the plug on your thoughts. One moment you are speaking, working, or recalling information, and the next, there is only silence. This does ...

A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...