When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated tools, or when a child invents the rules of a new game, what happens in the ...

Inhibiting locus coeruleus input to the medial prefrontal cortex in mice impaired task performance, affected the tuning of single cortical neurons and disrupted population dynamics and encoding ...

A new study uses real-time fMRI neurofeedback to help depression patients reduce rumination by training specific brain circuits in a gamified environment.

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

In a new JNeurosci paper, a Boston College research team led by John Christianson explored how a pathway between two areas of ...