Already several seconds before we consciously make a decision its outcome can be predicted from unconscious activity in the brain. This is shown by a study of scientists from the Max…
It is often believed that snakes cannot hear. This presumption is fed by the fact that snakes lack an outer ear and that scientific evidence of snakes responding to sound is scarce.…
What makes up a thought? First of all, it is a firework of neuronal activity, produced by neurones, the building blocks of the brain, which encode and transmit information in the form…
Researchers in Goettingen have shown how avalanches of neuronal discharge occur in the brain. Many systems of nature automatically head for a critical state which can be characterised…