The human brain is constantly taking in information about the world through sight, touch, hearing and the other senses.

Researchers are finding soot and metals deep in human brains, linking air pollution to dementia and brain shrinkage.

Extreme quiet can make body sounds stand out. Studies of perception, memory, and mice reveal what silence changes and where ...

Scientists have discovered why common marmosets have unusually small, smooth brains despite starting development much like ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

We infer what animals experience from how they behave. But can we rely on those same inferences after substantially altering ...

The human brain is said to be one of the most mysterious entities in the universe.Although it weighs only about 1.3 kilograms,it contains approximately 86 billion neurons,which exchange countless ...

Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire ...

An fMRI study of 16 cognitive tasks found that cortical connectivity dimensionality predicts whether task representations are ...

Could the geometry of our brains increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? It’s a provocative question, but one that some ...

The U.S. government has touted organoids as an alternative to animals for studying the brain. Scientists are still working to ...

A fibril-selective, Fc-free nanantibody bound Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid assemblies and reduced injury signals in human ...