Play is fundamental to child development, with evidence highlighting its crucial role in enhancing executive function (EF). However, the neural mechanisms underlying play-based cognitive improvements ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

An international team of scientists led by the University of Surrey has discovered that a form of safe, painless, and non-invasive brain stimulation could help people who are at risk of falling behind ...

Sometimes, stress or excitement can affect decision making, and not always positively. Fortunately, this brain hack can help ...

Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) poses significant socioeconomic and humanitarian challenges. This study investigated relationships between resting-state neural activation in the somatosensory cortex ...

Research by neuro-physiologists shows that our emotions affect our awareness of the passing of time ...

Increasing our level of physical fitness leads to a bigger release of brain-boosting proteins following one session of exercise, a new study led by a UCL researcher has found. The study, published in ...