Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...

Different areas of the prefrontal cortex show very different effects on the time variability in decision-making activities Figure 1: The variability in the time it takes to make decisions tends to ...

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

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

The greatest enemy of anyone below 25 is the prefrontal cortex. Indeed, it is the devil on your shoulder that whispers in your ear, telling you to smoke that weed the night before your economics ...

Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...

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