These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

Studying cognition by averaging data from many people's brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford ...

When probes are inserted into the brain for research or clinical purposes, the electrical activity of neurons is recorded.

Whether speaking or swinging a bat, precise and adaptable timing of movement is essential for everyday behavior. Although we do not have sensory organs like eyes or a nose to sense time, we can keep ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, and perceive the world. Caption: This image shows a topographic vision ...

As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets certain tasks, such as our morning commute, on autopilot to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. That’s a key idea ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...