A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...

A new study suggests that taking a two-hour nap during a night shift may help restore brain function and memory in nurses. The research provides evidence that napping can reverse some of the ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

A teenager from Beijing, China, became the youngest ever person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2022 and MRI scans show ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

This paper represents a valuable contribution to our understanding of how LFP oscillations and beta band coordination between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of rats may relate to learning.

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see ...