These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. While this approach has yielded major advances, it has left unresolved one of the most basic facts about human cognition: its overall ...

If you can pay attention, you can train your brain. And if you can train your brain, you can change how you lead.

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has a unique “connectivity fingerprint” tied to its role in cognition, from ...

The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to heart rate and pulse. Now, scientists say the gut may hold the key to ...

Whether speaking or swinging a bat, precise and adaptable timing of movement is essential for everyday behavior. Although we do not have sensory organs like eyes or a nose to sense time, we can keep ...

Small changes in how you study or work can make a real difference in how well and how long you remember crucial information ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...