Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

During periods of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, brain activity often resembles that of awake behavior. At times, the brain can actually be more active during REM sleep than when you’re awake. It’s ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

Study demonstrated that the Homer1 gene improves focus by reducing “noise” in the prefrontal cortex, with implications for studying attention disorders.

Attention depends on the brain’s ability to filter out distractions, but new research suggests this works best when ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

During periods of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, brain activity often resembles that of awake behavior. At times, the brain can actually be more active during REM sleep than when you're awake. It's ...