A new study shows that balanced neural inhibition in the hippocampus is crucial for recognition memory, the ability to remember objects we’ve recently encountered.

How does the brain manage to catch the drift of a mumbled sentence or a flat, robotic voice? A new study led by researchers ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain's navigation system, which may help us better understand early ...

Excessive screen time in childhood is associated with changes in the brain, particularly in regions involved in attention and ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...

A new study led by scientists at the Perception Dynamics Institute and the University of California San Diego demonstrates ...

A lot of brain development happens early in life, but researchers don't have a strong understanding of how a baby's brain ...