Taking care of your brain is just as important as pampering your body and skin. Most people often realize this only when midlife brain fog hits. Buzz60’s Johana Restrepo has ways to boost brain health ...

The brains of birds and mammals have diverged substantially during the course of evolution. A research team at the Center for Molecular Biology of ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Using a novel deep learning approach, we evaluated the predictive power of the functional connectome during various states (resting state, movie-watching, and n-back) on episodic memory and working ...

Dubbed the “creativity circuit,” damage to this area due to injury or brain disease resulted in both decreases and increases ...

A new study led by researchers at Mass General Brigham suggests that different brain regions activated by creative tasks are ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

Cognitive control is the process by which goals or plans influence behaviour. Also called executive control, this process can inhibit automatic responses and influence working memory. Cognitive ...

We love maps. From ancient scribbles on parchment to the artistically drawn atlases of explorers, maps have given us confidence, structure, and a sense of control. They provide a clear path, a set of ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus looked into the impact of recent and lifetime cannabis ...

There is an emerging demand for cognitive enhancement in recent years, led by increasing pressure to maintain high mental performance in academic, professional, and personal spheres. Cognitive ...