Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them
Maybe it’s a commercial jingle, a TikTok song, or a new summer bop. Here’s how to trick your brain into hitting pause. ..
Maybe it’s a commercial jingle, a TikTok song, or a new summer bop. Here’s how to trick your brain into hitting pause. ..
An early experiment in older rhesus macaques suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Could it one day help people? ..
Want to take control inside your dreams? Turns out it’s a skill you can practice. ..
The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New research shows how and why they are different. ..
To sharpen its command over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves. ..
The company is vying for an edge in an increasingly crowded field that seeks to let people control machines with their minds. ..
For years, potential therapies that attack this brain protein have failed to help patients in clinical trials. Now—surprisingly—a new drug shows promise. ..
Despite having tiny arthropod brains, spiders in a new experiment showed some complex cognitive calculations. ..
Tiny cell clusters called organoids integrated with the animals’ own tissue, a step toward developing sophisticated mini-models of the brain. ..
Playfulness and tickling aren’t always considered “serious” subjects, but a new study shows how they can address key questions about the brain. ..