Researchers developed a multilayer MEG framework that estimates activity across cortical depth non-invasively. Simulations and three human datasets show when reliable laminar inference is possible, en...

This study reveals that amplitude-stratified co-fluctuations in brain activity transit from sensorimotor to association dominance. These patterns matured between childhood to adulthood and reconfigure...

Humans show reproducible sex differences in regional cortical volume, area and thickness controlling for overall brain size. These regions are enriched for effects of potentially causal sex chromosoma...

While we sleep, we disengage from the external environment. Using EEG-fMRI, we found that during sleep visual signals reach the thalamus but are suppressed in the visual cortex, revealing a cortical m...

Sex-based behavioral differences do not match with variations in brain activation or structure in a study of almost 1,000 people.

What transforms a novice into an expert? In an fMRI study of chess players, the authors show that expert codes prioritise relational content, are more compressed, and reside in domain-general frontopa...

Using high-resolution brain imaging, researchers reveal that aesthetic preferences for visual artworks can be captured by two key dimensions, meaning and value, offering insight into how the brain org...

The brain may use dopamine to expand time between distinct events, enabling us to remember unique episodes.

Twenty-eight healthy adults were given their first psychedelic experience, 25mg psilocybin, inducing changes detected one hour and one month later. Acute changes in brain function (EEG) and enduring changes in anatomy (DTI) were seen that mapped to psychological changes.

Twenty-eight healthy adults were given their first psychedelic experience, 25mg psilocybin, inducing changes detected one hour and one month later. Acute changes in brain function (EEG) and enduring c...

UCL researchers have used advanced brain imaging to uncover the distinct brain changes between people with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, opening the door to more targeted treatments

Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain? Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, Song and colleagues show that the geometry of neural dynamics alo...

Extending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnancy effects and distinct changes in other networks.

Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.

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Individuals with schizophrenia show reduced structural similarity in temporal, cingulate, and insular lobes, especially those with worse cognition and symptoms, affecting late maturing association areas with low metabolism and high neurotransmission.

This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.

Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion and the prominent role of odours in food reward.

Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...

This Perspective outlines how brain-age prediction models are increasingly applied to child and adolescent populations and examines the specific challenges this entails. It offers practical recommenda...

When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...

Study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain ageing was not linked to infection status, but cognitive decline was.

Weijs, Missura, Potok et al. showed in this study with brain stimulation and electrophysiological methods that self-regulation of pupil size via pupil-based biofeedback modulates cortical excitability...

Across 49 observers, we found large variations in crowding distance and retinotopic map size. These measures covary, conserving a 1.4-mm cortical crowding distance in the human V4 map. This links the ...

Nature Communications - Here, authors reveal the anatomy of the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts use of intentional, communicative gestures and sounds. The chimpanzee arcuate is not...

Nature Communications - The authors find the human red nucleus is functionally connected with action and motivated behavior networks, instead of motor-effector networks. They argue the red nucleus...

Yin et al. harmonized 1,091 fMRI scans across five imaging cohorts to map developmental trajectories of brain functional connectivity in early childhood, revealing early brain development and its link...