Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...

You’ve probably heard of white noise before, but did you know there are other “colors” of ambient noise? In fact, there are three main types: white noise, pink noise, and brown noise. They all have ...

IF you find yourself obsessively thinking about food, you’re not alone – and an eating psychology coach has revealed three ...

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.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – As they age, some people find it harder to understand speech in noisy environments. Now, University at Buffalo researchers have identified the area in the brain, called the insula, ...

Follow the science to understand how passive noise blocking and noise-masking audio create a truly restful environment.

Tim Palmer receives funding from The Royal Society and from the European Research Council. His book, The Primacy of Doubt is published by Oxford University Press. We all have to make hard decisions ...

The brain's neural activity is irregular, changing from one moment to the next. To date, this apparent 'noise' has been thought to be due to random natural variations ...

Sometimes brain activity has no regularity and instead looks more like electrical noise. The “white noise” component of this is truly random like static, but some of it has a more interesting ...