Why does stress make you forget? Neuroscientist Gustavo Deco explains how your brain shifts from learning to survival mode.

Take a deep breath. Now exhale slowly. You’re probably not aware of it, but your heart has just slowed down a bit. Not to worry; it will speed up again when you inhale. This regular-irregular beat is ...

If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it and repeat. Over time, it ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences — finding hidden connections between different experiences — changes dramatically as we age.

But brain phantoms pose numerous special challenges, and to date, "no 3D anthropomorphic brain structure suitable for whole-brain quantitative MRI has been developed," the authors note. The NIST team, ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age. Members of Alison Preston’s research group study fMRI brain ...