The idea is called Social Baseline Theory, developed by the psychologist James Coan, and its central claim is stranger than ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The brain does not have the ability to rewire itself—such as following ...

In this post, the last of a five-part series, we will acquire an understanding of various theories that emphasize the importance of top-down signaling in shaping and enabling conscious perception.

For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter's team have succeeded in explaining the propagation of traveling waves of activity in the human brain using a computer simulation.

Psychology suggests that people who only become productive when deadlines are approaching are rarely lazy. More often, they ...

How useful a memory is for future situations determines where it resides in the brain, according to a new theory proposed by researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and collaborators at UCL. The ...

Modern science can trace its origin from Copernicus’s discovery of the Sun-centred solar system—which made the prevailing Earth-centred view medieval by comparison. Inevitably, the scientific ...

How does the human brain learn to innovate? The Thousand Brain theory, proposed by Silicon Valley innovator-turned-scientist Jeff Hawkins, is the first proposal to explain how the brain functions at ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This theory has led to the belief that some of us are left-brained thinkers (you lead with your head) while others are ...