TL;DR: Researchers found that the human brain processes thoughts at a surprisingly slow rate of 10 bits per second. The human brain is truly and incredible piece of wetware that even the smartest of ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower ...

Rutgers researchers found that the distribution of neural timescales across the cortex plays a crucial role in how ...

The human brain is often lauded as one of nature's most extraordinary creations, as our sensory systems take in billions of bits of information per second. Yet only a fraction of that makes it to our ...

This study provides important evidence that negative affect is associated with slower cognitive processing in daily life, with findings replicated across three independent samples and supported by ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders shows that individuals with depression exhibit slower and less variable activity in the part of the brain responsible for processing what we ...