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 ...

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

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

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.

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

The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember — it’s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called “SuperAgers,” who possess a brain that fights back. For these people, ...

When startled, your brain and body activate the fight-or-flight response, flooding you with stress hormones. This rapid ...

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 ...

This year’s WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, ...