An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and ...

By activating the visual cortex electrically, those modules generate simple spots or patterns of light that the brain can try ...

People who pull an all-nighter or work back-to-back overnight shifts lose more than alertness. A growing body of primary ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen, and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

A neuroimaging study in Italy found that autobiographical memories are represented across the hippocampus and interconnected ...

Spiraling waves of neural activity appear and travel in the brain. Scientists hope to learn if these rotating waves on-the-move play a global role in sensing and interpreting internal and external ...

Whether we're staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...