When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated ...

Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

Long-term, heavy cannabis use has been linked to changes in the prefrontal cortex, which plays a key role in executive functions like planning, working memory, and impulse control. The corresponding ...