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 ...

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 ...

Someone viewing the two pictures side by side perceive a circle floating above the background ... had no depth cues. This supported his idea that depth perception happened in the brain, and ...

In the book, "Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century" (Abrams 2010), astonishing images that reveal both the complexity and beauty of the brain.

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 ...

Those with normal brain function will be able to understand the sentence even when there is a lot of background noise. But many of those recovering from a concussion will fail the test.