The human brain is the most elegant information processing system, and benefits from “novel and complex” stimuli.

Coffee can help you stay awake. But what does caffeine actually do to your brain once you're asleep? Using AI, a team of researchers has an answer: it affects the brain's 'criticality'. Caffeine is ...

A new study shows that even a moderate dose of caffeine alters brain activity during sleep, increasing complexity and nudging neural systems toward a high-efficiency processing state, especially in ...

Earlier posts focused on the “easy problem” of consciousness—finding relationships between mental activity and the dynamic patterns measured with various brain imaging methods. This new post advances ...

Caffeine is found not only in coffee but also in tea, chocolate, energy drinks, and many soft drinks, making it one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. In a study ...