cognitive-neuroscience

Autism is a complex condition that can affect different people in very different ways. While...

From childhood to old age, studies are uncovering surprising links between vitamin D and mental health and cognition.

Scientists have created the first complete brain-to-body wiring map of a fruit fly, revealing that complex behavior may arise from distributed neural teamwork rather than a central controller. A large international research team led by labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has reached a major neuroscience milestone: a complete wiring diagram of every [...]

Scientists discovered that the brain begins preparing for social connection before we even make the first move. Why do we decide to approach other people? According to new research, the answer may start unfolding in the brain several seconds before any movement takes place. A team of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has [...]

Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water.

Scientific Reports, Published online: 14 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-57654-4 Digit-tracking reveals curiosity-driven visual attention in macaque monkeys

When we fall asleep, our brains don’t just shut off; they get to work. One of their primary jobs is memory consolidation—sorting through the events of the day and filing them into long-term storage. The brain does this by spontaneously “reactivating” or replaying memories. Recent memories are consolidated during sleep by spontaneous reactivation. However, whether […]

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A new study suggests that reproducing a crucial sleep-like brain pattern in awake animals may help preserve memory and learning abilities. What if part of the brain could get some of the benefits of sleep without the rest of the brain ever going offline? A new NIH-funded study suggests that may be possible. Researchers found [...]

Source: Science Daily - Top Health A three-year study of nearly 4,000 adults aged 19 to 94 found that brain health can improve at any age, challenging the common belief that mental sharpness must decline as we get older. Participants spent just a few minutes a day on brain-training activities, and researchers found gains across multiple aspects of brain health, including thinking clarity, emotion…

The field of human adult neurogenesis has been controversial despite mounting evidence. This Perspective proposes moving beyond debating the existence of adult neurogenesis, and towards discovering strategies to harness endogenous stem cell potential for resilience against cognitive aging.

Whole-brain, cellular-resolution imaging reveals a hierarchical thalamus–brainstem attractor network that encodes recent history and shapes behavioural bias in zebrafish.

A new study reveals that reading comic books on physical paper reduces the brain's workload compared to digital tablets. Brain scans show that paper provides sensory cues that make it easier to mentally organize and remember story details.

​In the split second after you hear a noise, your brain is already making a potentially life-or-death deduction: Did I do that, or did something else? Our nervous systems answer this question using something called corollary discharge, a copy of a motor command that tells sensory areas what to expect from our own actions.

A new study offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02330-z Striatal direct and indirect pathways jointly control how many actions are performed during counting, and how animals move toward specific goals. These pathways implement a push–pull controller for discrete action counting as well as continuous movement control.

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41401-026-01836-3 Sevoflurane-induced disruption of critical period Arc signaling drives aberrant microglial synaptic pruning and cognitive deficits

Many thoughts enter our minds without our conscious awareness or control.” Although we can decide to think about certain things, there are other mental processes that get started automatically. For example, we count things automatically, without willing it. The conclusion comes from a study in which people were given a task involving an array of objects. They were specifically told not to count t…

Nature Communications, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74347-8 The neural principles underlying flexible social gaze communication remain unknown. Here the authors show that social gaze follows a compositional code in the primate brain, with the basolateral amygdala and anterior cingulate gyrus representing its primitives in abstract, orthogonal formats.