On neuroscience’s big stage Nov. 15, MIT Professor Earl K. Miller will propose that thought and consciousness emerge from the fast and flexible organization of the cortex produced by the analog ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable neuroplasticity. A team of researchers has studied the brain activity of young ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated ...

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, have for the first time managed to identify, with an imaging technique, whether nervous ...