It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is, was previously unknown. How do permanent ...

The development of cortical structures has fascinated neuroscientists since the time of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The principal insights made in the twentieth century about neocortical development ...

A hierarchy of timescales in the cerebral cortex is functionally desirable for rapid information processing in sensory areas and slow time integration in association areas. Here, through an analysis ...

Researchers have discovered how two brain areas, neocortex and thalamus, work together to detect discrepancies between what animals expect from their environment and actual events. These prediction ...

In the first blog in this series, we quoted this passage from Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Unholy Loves: Making love with him in the customary dark, she had often thought, though every instinct in her ...