Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

A new study reveals that alpha brain waves help the brain decide what belongs to your body. Faster rhythms allow the brain to match sight and touch more precisely, strengthening the feeling that a ...

What we call “pretty” is far less fixed than it feels. Research shows that attraction is shaped by biology, psychology, ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...

Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory signals like music can induce movement. Now new research suggests that motor signals in the brain actually ...

Researchers from UZH have discovered how the perception of meaning changes in the brain under the influence of LSD. The serotonin 2A receptors are responsible for altered perception. This finding will ...

Feeling warm or cold doesn’t just register on the skin—it changes how connected we feel to our own bodies. Research shows ...

A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain ...

Anxiety’s impact on the brain has been carefully documented by research: It can cause fluctuations in neurotransmitters, change activity in different regions of the brain, and, according to new ...