Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories. When you pick up a new hobby, try a recipe a friend recommended or read the latest world news, your brain stores many of these ...

For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

The brains of humans and other mammals contain a vast array of neuronal and non-neuronal cell types. The human capacity to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

What is it when intelligence ceases to be something that a person is born with and is something that a person plugs? The ...