A new study shows that the brain's visual system adapts to your goals, reshaping perception based on what you're trying to do ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving.

In new research published in Nature, scientists have produced the first comprehensive atlas of the tiny energy producers in ...

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

Two of the goals of that program are to generate a detailed wiring diagram for the complete mouse brain, and to map long-distance connections between different areas of the human brain.

What's exciting about this new study? Our findings challenge the traditional view that early sensory areas in the brain are ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area called the Hippocampus minor. He claimed that made it unique among the ...

Neuroscientists have carefully studied how synapses only have access to their own “local” information, yet collectively they help shape broad new learned behaviors, a conundrum labeled as the “credit ...

CIC biomaGUNE, and IIS Biobizkaia reveals unexpected behavior in myelin. Prolonged physical exercise forces the human body to ...

To determine which brain areas are necessary for a certain ability ... is the most powerful method for localising function in the human brain. Studying brain injuries can be difficult and time ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives.