Expert Counter-Strike gamers are 90ms faster at visual decisions, using drift-diffusion models to deconstruct mental processing speed.

Why is adapting to changing environments challenging for autistic individuals? A new study shows that the autistic brain is ...

Neuroscientists discover hippocampal place cells bind others' distress to our internal spatial maps, offering a biological basis for observational memory.

Researchers show 10 minutes of mild tDCS brain stimulation eliminates a visual perceptual bias linked to the sexual objectification of women.

A cross-sectional epidemiological and targeted lipidomics study of 1,917 community-dwelling older adults reveals that higher dietary intake of lecithin, a major source of phosphatidylcholine, is ...

A neuroimaging study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit (Unicog) reveals that the human brain constructs a continuous, highly structured spatial semantic ...

A neuroimaging study published in The Journal of Neuroscience by researchers at the University of Helsinki reveals how the human brain filters competing voices in a noisy “cocktail party” environment.

Angelman syndrome triggers a false cellular stress alarm via asparagine synthetase, halting brain growth and protein synthesis.

Reading stories that employ “internal focalization”, granting readers direct access to a character’s private remorse, sparks genuine empathy that leads to forgiveness of fictional misdeeds.

A 10-year study tracking nearly 1,000 Medicare beneficiaries found that older adults who nap most days or every day face a 48% higher risk of developing dementia compared to non-nappers. Unplanned, ...

A long-term study of more than 4,500 older adults reveals that individuals who are overweight or obese when diagnosed with dementia exhibit a significantly lower risk of death than those of normal ...

A 35-year study following adults from young adulthood into middle age reveals that both lifetime and recent cannabis use are tied to worse objectively measured sleep quality, characterized by lower ...