John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

When it comes to tau tangles, cortical deposits receive the lion’s share of scientists’ attention, but it is the tiny subcortical regions where tangles originate that might set the course for ...

In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers at Northwestern Medicine discovered that the brain regions used for ...

This work presents potentially important findings suggesting that a combination of transcranial stimulation approaches applied for a short period could improve memory performance after administration.

These findings have led to the concept of the prospective brain ... medial temporal lobe regions including the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus, and a posterior midline region near the ...

Functional analyses revealed that the neural activation of musicians was stronger than those of non-musicians in the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL ... s gyrus (HG), right middle temporal gyrus (MTG ...

EEG and fMRI are procedures used to obtain direct and indirect measurements of brain neural activity ... (MPF), bilateral posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), ipsilateral lateral parietal cortex (LP), ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes, such as ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word 'cat' is stuck on the tip of your tongue. This phenomenon, known as Broca's aphasia or expressive ...

In this study, we used positron emission tomography (PET) to address the question of where in the auditory system temporal integration occurs. We have identified brain areas that show increased ...