A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Before the prefrontal cortex evolved, another system in the brain may already have been directing attention, scientists have ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...

ADHD attention circuit research from Johns Hopkins University has identified PLTi — an ancient brainstem cluster of ...