New study gives the most detailed look yet at the neuroscience of placebo effects
A large proportion of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatmen...
Real-world neuroscience experiments show diversity in learning new motor skills
Researchers at Imperial College London have shown ...
Scientists develop technique to reveal epigenetic features of cells in the brain
The brain’s prefrontal cortex, which gives u...
Exercise is good for the aging brain: Researchers find a single bout of exercise boosts cognition, memory performance in some older people
Exercise seems to endow a wealth of benefits, from...
Skeletal shapes key to rapid recognition of objects: A new insight into the human vision system
In the blink of an eye, the human visual system ca...
How deep space travel could affect the brain: Radiation exposure impairs learning and memory, causes anxiety
Exposure to chronic, low dose radiation — th...
Knowing where the center of a space is helps inform spatial awareness
As you enter a new environment such as visiting a ...
How expectation influences perception: Neuroscientists find brain activity patterns that encode our beliefs and affect how we interpret the world around us
For decades, research has shown that our perceptio...
