Consciousness may arise from the brain’s visual and sensory areas, not the frontal regions once believed to dominate.

A new study reveals how the brain allocates limited working memory by giving priority items more precise representation.

As humans and other animals navigate their surroundings and experience different things, their brain creates so-called ...

When navigating environments with changing rules, human brain circuits flexibly adapt how and where we retain information to help us achieve our immediate goals.

And through pathways of nerve connection to other areas of the brain, the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually ...