Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

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

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

Scientists have confirmed that spaceflight forces the brain to shift and stretch, a discovery that could change how we ...

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

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

UCLA scientists have developed advanced miniature 3D tumor organoid models that make it possible to study glioblastoma tumors in a setting that closely mirrors the human brain, shedding light on how ...

Scientists have found that the human brain understands spoken language in a surprisingly similar way to advanced AI systems.

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...