So how does the brain keep track of when different sensory signals come in from the body? It relies on certain rhythmic waves ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...

New research suggests the brain may stay active moments after the heart stops, triggering life recall and calm sensations that many describe as seeing loved ones or white, light experiences before ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...

Alpha oscillations – once thought to be the brain “idling” – are turning out to be way more important than we gave them ...

When electrical activity travels across the brain, it moves like ripples on a pond. The motion of these "brain waves," first observed in the 1920s, can now be seen more clearly than ever before thanks ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In animal tests, these rotations predicted performance: full rotations meant ...

New research shows sleep deprivation can push the awake brain into a sleep-like state, disrupting attention and brain fluid ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information. How does the well-controlled and yet highly nimble nature of ...

This public domain/Wikimedia Commons image of monitors working in the security operations center at the University of Maryland illustrates a challenge of visual working memory: keeping track of what ...