What we call “pretty” is far less fixed than it feels. Research shows that attraction is shaped by biology, psychology, ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...

Learn how a new research roadmap could turn debates about consciousness into testable experiments.

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...

Evoked responses to the congruent and incongruent target words 'cheap' or 'expensive' in the price judgment task (A–C) and the semantic task (D). The graph shows responses to the target words ...

Inside the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at ASU, researchers investigate how the brain turns sensory signals into meaningful perception. Led by Professor Gi-Yeul Bae at the Department of ...

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...

Anxiety’s impact on the brain has been carefully documented by research: It can cause fluctuations in neurotransmitters, change activity in different regions of the brain, and, according to new ...

Remember how summer vacation felt endless when you were a kid? Three months seemed like an eternity filled with countless adventures and experiences. Now entire years pass in what feels like weeks.