Noise-cancelling headphones are used to drown out the sound of colleagues while you're trying to focus work, get in the zone when lifting in the gym or avoid distractions when meditating. But now ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo performed two-photon imaging in the visual cortex of marmoset monkeys to examine spontaneous and visual stimulus-evoked neuronal activities (top left). Visual ...

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

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, ...

Lots of people rely on noise-canceling headphones to tune out distractions at work, on public transportation or during exercise — but frequently using the technology to tune out your surroundings may ...

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 ...

Exciting a brain region using electrical noise stimulation can help improve mathematical learning in those who struggle with the subject, according to a new study. Exciting a brain region using ...