A new study reveals how the brain unifies vision across its two hemispheres when objects cross the field of view.

Place cells are specialized neurons in a brain region known as the hippocampus, which have been found to fire when animals ...

New research shows that slow oscillations in the brain, which occur during deep sleep and anesthesia, are guided by neuronal excitability rather than structural anatomy.

While different brain regions have distinct functional roles, increasingly these are being shown to be linked in a highly coordinated way. One way such coordination takes place is via electrical brain ...

Music training sharpens focus by strengthening brain networks, helping listeners filter distractions and concentrate in noisy ...

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows how flickering light can cause hallucinations in our brain: it produces "standing waves" of brain activity. The work is published in ...