In order to quantify the speed of human thought, Caltech’s Jieyu Zheng compared it to the speed of computing. By testing the ...

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They discovered that flashes of insight trigger a burst of activity in the brain’s hippocampus, a cashew-shaped structure ...

Scientists at McMaster University have uncovered new insights into the complex interactions between different kinds of brain ...

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A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we ...

A research team has demonstrated how the energy levels of individual neurons in the brain change during so-called spreading ...

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An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research.