Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model ...

Chronic stress does more than just affect mood—it may actually change the way we hear. Researchers found that stressed mice ...

When we listen to music and find it beautiful, our brains engage in a different pattern of activity compared to when we ...

That’s an issue I’ve been looking into for years now, and there are a multitude of reasons why so many of our kids can’t read ...

Chronic stress changes the way our brains process sound, according to research published by the Ben-Gurion University of the ...

Chronic stress weakens the brain’s ability to process sounds, requiring louder stimuli to trigger normal responses, according to new research in mice.

Chronic stress changes the way our brain processes sounds, according to new research conducted on mice at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. For instance, sounds need to be louder during chronic ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

A new study shows that the cerebral cortex acts as a "memory machine," constantly detecting novel stimuli to refine its predictions of the future.

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage ...