cognitive-neuroscience

People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those of monolinguals. Starting earlier and becoming highly fluent were also linked to a stronger effect.

When you recognize a familiar face, your brain must connect that face with a name,...

Scientific Reports, Published online: 22 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66002-5 Patterns of information flow in autism canonical brain network by transfer entropy approach

On this bingecast archive episode of Mind Matters News, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr. Winston Ewert to the show to discuss Ewert’s chapter in the volume Minding the Brain.  In his contribution, titled “The Human Mind’s Sophisticated Algorithm and Its Implications,” Dr. Ewert argues that the human mind’s problem-solving cognition can be modeled as a sophisticated algorithm. Ewert explains tha…

Consciousness remains incompletely explained at the anatomical, biophysical, and functional levels. Although existing theories characterize key functional correlates of conscious experience—including global broadcasting, information integration, attentional selection, working-memory-based awareness, and electromagnetic field dynamics—none has yet identified a specific cellular mechanism embedded …

When people encounter new information that challenges their expectations, their pupils are likely to dilate. New research digs into why.

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified the brain mechanisms that help us work out whether the consequences we experience are caused by our own actions or by circumstances beyond our control.

Research from the University of East Anglia shows how our memories change with age and why specific details associated with past events can fade over time.

Bilateral neural recordings show submillisecond coordination during zebra-finch song but largely independent replay of vocal fragments during sleep.

A recent study found that man’s best friend processes positive and negative human emotions differently and can distinguish between fearful faces and those showing sadness or anger

New research published in Brain Imaging and Behavior suggests that estradiol influences how brain areas communicate during memory tasks in middle-aged women. The findings provide evidence that higher hormone levels tend to allow for more efficient brain connectivity.

This study investigates the potential of electroencephalography-based neurometrics to enhance vocational interest assessment within John L. Holland’s RIASEC framework, which classifies occupational preferences across six dimensions: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. The research compares occupational interest profiles obtained through a widely used self-r…

This essay argues that the emergence of LLMs offers not only a challenge to human creativity, but an opportunity to examine human cognition. Drawing on questions from art, cognitive science, and theories of grounding, it argues that human cognition is relational, emergent, environmentally scaffolded, and mediated by inherited models rather than directly grounded in an unmediated reality. This has…

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by debilitating motor impairment, cognitive decline, and a substantial reduction in patient quality of life. While pharmacological treatments and standard physiotherapy provide essential symptomatic relief, they often offer only transient benefits. Consequently, there is growing interest in non-pharmacological inte…

The human brain is constantly awash with information. Even during a routine activity such as driving, the brain

ADHD-related attention patterns may become a source of creativity and focus when supported through structured creative expression. How can ADHD create serious everyday challenges for millions of people while also appearing among highly successful creative figures such as Justin Timberlake and Simone Biles? New research from Constructor University neuroscientist Dr. Radwa Khalil, published in iSci…

Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?

Scientific Reports, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50683-z Sulforaphane-induced NRF2 activation improves spatial memory and modulates neuroinflammation in a streptozotocin-induced rat model of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease