A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that Oveporexton, an OX2R agonist, alleviated ...

New work explores why consciousness evolved and what observing birds can teach us about its biological purpose.

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes—think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke—is a ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - ...

When traffic thickens or a tricky turn appears, many drivers instinctively reach for the volume knob before they touch the ...

Lucid dreaming has long sat in a gray zone between folklore and science, described by sleepers who insist they can steer their dreams while skeptics questioned whether the experience was anything more ...

Differences in kinetics of retinal output signals originate at least in part from differences in synaptic output from distinct bipolar cell types.

How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...

This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

What is the neuropsychological basis for the brain's ever-changing contextualized goals? I explore this question from the perspective of the Affect Management Framework (AMF).