This default activity, to everyone's surprise, is no mere murmur in the background ... be preparing the brain for future contingencies. "The resting activity seems to create images about what ...

It’s so constant, we often treat it like harmless background noise. But the brain doesn’t. Whether we realize it or not, music is processed across multiple brain regions tied to attention ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new ...

Discover why your brain treats silence as danger and craves background noise. The science behind your audio addiction.

Lendner argued, though, that the answer isn’t in the regular brain waves, but rather in an aspect of neural activity that scientists might normally ignore: the erratic background noise.

Handily, a team of scientists out of Singapore just discovered a simple way to keep remote meetings from frying your brain ... background were deemed most restful and professional? Shocking ...

Even when at rest, the brain is never truly quiet. New research in mice sheds light on the seemingly random brain signals that hum in the background of brains. These signals might help the brain ...

This is not a work of art. It’s an image of microscopic blood flow in a rat’s brain, taken with one of many new tools that are yielding higher levels of detail in brain imaging. Here are seven ...

EPFL researchers have made an important discovery about the brain. The team says that a form of neuron-to-neuron communication previously dismissed as background noise is actually required to keep ...