Much of the previous research on human brain uniqueness has focused on the prefrontal cortex, a group of areas at the front of our brain linked to complex thought and decision-making. We indeed ...

GNWT, by contrast, argues that consciousness occurs when certain information is “broadcast” across a network of brain regions ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

New State of Consciousness Unlocked by Researchers, Where The Brain Goes Into a ‘Hybrid’ State Dreaming for many is an escape ...

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks ...

The findings, published in Brain, help to increase our understanding of how the human brain supports our ... in either the left or right frontal (front) or posterior (back) regions of the brain.

This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers ... fibers sending signals between the front and back of the brain are in green, and fibers sending signals between ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

Neuroanatomist Patrick Hof and his colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan first stumbled across the neurons in human brain specimens in 1995, in a region toward the front of ...

The human brain can learn through experience to filter out disturbing and distracting stimuli -- such as a glaring roadside billboard or a flashing banner on the internet. Scientists have used ...