Recent insights into brain functioning challenge the long-standing belief that brain wiring is the primary determinant of intelligence and behavior. It appears that it’s not just about how the brain ...

New research suggests the human brain’s memory and learning peak at seven senses—the optimal number for cognition.

Twelve laboratories around the world have joined forces to map neuronal activity in a mouse’s brain as it makes decisions.

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different ...

Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored.

A Nature Neuroscience study finds that special "illusion-encoding" neurons in the brain's visual cortex fill in missing ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter.

Make no mistake, addiction is a neurological brain disorder. When the subject of addiction comes up, people often lean on ...

In a major leap forward for sleep science, researchers have uncovered five distinct “sleep” profiles—patterns that reveal how ...

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

Why? I submit that as a field, we are still under the spell of split-brain research, leading us to focus a bit too enthusiastically on hemispheric differences rather than commonalities. Split-brain ...