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Major league baseball players must decide whether and how to swing at a pitch based only on the first 10 to 20 percent of the ball’s flight when there is still a lot of uncertainty about the pitch’s speed and trajectory. How do they do it? New research…

The neurotransmitter dopamine influences the activity of a wide variety of brain areas. A deficiency of this substance can have drastic consequences: The death of dopamine-producing nerve cells in the substantia nigra – a particularly sensitive part of…

Researchers have discovered changes in the brain, triggered by LSD, that may explain the profound altered behavior associated with LSD, helping to understand how the brain generates behavior.

The human brain regions responsible for working memory content are also used to gauge the quality, or uncertainty, of memories, a team of scientists has found. Its study uncovers how these neural responses allow us to act and make decisions based on ho…

People often unconsciously synchronize bodily functions like heartbeat and breathing when they share an experience, such as a live performance or have a personal conversation. According to a new study, subjects’ heart rates synchronize even if they are…

A study analyzing over 15,000 individual synapses in macaques and mice found that primate neurons have two to five times fewer synapses in the visual cortex compared to mice — and the difference may be due to the metabolic cost of maintaining synapses.

Scientists have discovered an important cause of stroke occurring in the womb or just after birth, paving the way for new treatments. The research identified that a low number of platelets (small blood cells known for enabling clotting) in babies, eith…

A new study suggests that even if monkeys do not realize they have received a visual signal, they still change their behavior using it.

In a study of more than 400 adults with normal blood pressure, those who had high levels of stress hormones detected in their urine were more likely to develop high blood pressure over the next 6-7 years. Higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol we…

A new study into cognitive control promises to be the first of many aimed at understanding its origins in the brain and its variations between people and among groups.