How many times have you read the headline "Brain scans show...?" They've "shown" when patients are in pain, how psychopaths' brains are different, and why some people are shy. And they've even been ...

At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at people’s brain activity for signs of the boundary between wakefulness and unconsciousness.

“Multitasking appeals to many people because it creates the illusion of efficiency and control in a fast-paced, ...

The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers studying visual attention have discovered ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly bombarded with information, and focus depends on its ability to filter out ...

No? That’s surprising. Odds are, you can hear something right now: A siren, the hum of a fan, the blur of background conversations, the ticking of a watch. It’s seldom that our worlds are fully silent ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated the brain as the undisputed command center of human evolution, with the rest ...

Lendner is one of a growing number of neuroscientists energized by the idea that noise in the brain’s electrical activity could hold new clues to its inner workings. What was once seen as the ...