Preschoolers in the school’s 3-year-old classroom learn about the brain by singing “The Brain Song” to the tune of “Bingo” ...

When a neuroscientist began studying meditation, she expected to measure temporary mental states—not structural changes in the brain itself. What her team discovered shocked the scientific community.

The mind isn’t the brain. It’s what the brain does. It runs on emotion, filters, and loops. Understand it, and you can begin ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...

This suggests the brain applies different rules based on the strength of the original memory. Weak memories, like those for animal images, are more likely to be rescued. Stronger memories may already ...

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A new study shows that our brain’s attention system first prepares broadly, then zooms in on specific details within ...

For centuries, philosophers have asked: where, in the mind, does a decision begin? Is there a moment we can point to and say—there, that’s when the mind… made up its mind? Neuroscience has long tried ...

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.