The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University ...

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...

New research published in Biology of Sex Differences has found that sex differences in brain structure are already present at birth and remain relatively stable during early postnatal development. The ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy ... the area of the brain associated with thinking and reasoning. It’s the part of the brain which is most affected by frontotemporal ...

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of the nervous system. The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also ...

But it might also put us at risk for uniquely human brain disorders. The study appears in Nature. The research focused on parts of chromosomes known as human accelerated regions (HARs), which have ...

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in humans, though in a different region ...