And why do we find ourselves so easily distracted? "Exogenous attention, the cognitive process that allows a salient visual stimulus to impose itself on us, is automatic. When a colleague walks past ...

Brain exercises support neuroplasticity, which refers to the brain’s tendency to form new connections and neural pathways.

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important ...

The hallucinated sensation can be visual, auditory, tactile, and sometimes olfactory or gustatory. For example, a tactile ...

Linguists have long known that sign languages are as grammatically and logically sophisticated as spoken languages—and also ...

Understanding emotions may be fundamental to understanding subjective experience. Unlike other forms of information ...

Movement naturally attracts attention. This phenomenon is known as "bottom-up attention," where the characteristics of the stimulus - such as motion - capture our focus without conscious effort. Early ...

This is an important behavioral, pharmacological intervention study of the effects of the catecholamine reuptake inhibitor methylphenidate (MPH) on value-based decision-making using a combination of ...

Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology o ...

The Society of Neuroscience (SfN) will honor leading researchers whose groundbreaking work has transformed neuroscience — including the understanding of pain, addiction, stress, synaptic transport, ...