Understanding how the brain functions is important for teachers. We surveyed more than 500 early childhood educators about ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

Brain aging may lead to a decline in immune system response and hinder the removal of aged cells. The accumulation of these ...

The study reveals that when the right brain is damaged, people’s capacity for reasoning suffers, implying that this area is ...

“Our findings show a close connection between the right frontal brain network involved in reasoning and the right frontal ...

A string of murders in the United States has drawn the attention of authorities—and internet sleuths—to an emerging cult ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

Researchers suggest two newly developed tests could help to identify cognitive impairments that would otherwise go undetected ...

Future prosocial acts can be forecasted from stable biological differences in how people perceive others' merit, pointing to novel strategies to reduce favoritism and discrimination in social ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

This important study presents single-unit activity collected during model-based (MB) and model-free (MF) reinforcement learning in non-human primates. The dataset was carefully collected, and the ...