Recent research challenges the popular idea that general intelligence relies on the brain’s overall efficiency or “small-world” architecture. A new study demonstrates that broad, whole-brain measures ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

Your brain not only processes what you see but continuously makes predictions based on your experiences. This process may be less finetuned in people with autism. When someone throws a ball at you, ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts ...

Researchers published a study showing that several measurements of the brain, including blood flow and the brain's ability to compensate for the lack of it, are better predictors of mild cognitive ...

If you read popular science books about the brain, you might have encountered a new “grand theory” called predictive processing. If you haven’t yet, you will. Over the last two decades, it has gone ...

Cognitive testing done at the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. Predicting cognitive abilities from brain imaging has long been a central goal in cognitive neuroscience. While ...

University of Oklahoma researchers recently published a study showing that several measurements of the brain, including blood flow and the brain's ability to compensate for the lack of it, are better ...

A special MRI technique that detects iron levels in different regions of the brain can predict the onset of mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline in cognitively unimpaired older adults, ...