Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

Whether speaking or swinging a bat, precise and adaptable timing of movement is essential for everyday behavior. Although we do not have sensory organs like eyes or a nose to sense time, we can keep ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

While occasional drinking may cause temporary changes, repeated or heavy alcohol use can lead to more serious and lasting ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

Psychedelics work on the brain by increasing the functional connection between the thinking and sensory regions, temporarily blurring the line between perception and thought, an international ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. That’s a key idea ...

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets certain tasks, such as our morning commute, on autopilot to ...

Last month, we introduced the idea that looking after our brain is something we can all do. But what does “brain health” ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...