ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Cortex. Cortex is a peer-reviewed journal focused on the neural basis of cognition and behavior, with research spanning neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and related brain sciences. Its studies examine functions such as memory, language, perception, attention, decision-making, and social cognition, often using neurological patients, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and experimental methods to clarify how brain systems support human thought and behavior.
In one 16-year-old with highly superior autobiographical memory, unbidden memories of his past made up 87% of his stray thoughts in a dull lab task, against 39% in 36 comparison adults. One case cannot say why.