We usually don't think much about it, but our brain is pretty amazing! This three-pound organ is in charge of everything—from our thoughts and memories to our emotions and decision-making. And yet, ...

Age-related changes in protein tagging and degradation may help explain how the brain declines over time and why diet can ...

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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 ...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

New research on the "Reward Positivity" brain signal distinguishes between rewards and goals, offering a new way to measure ...

As a parent, a spouse, and someone who works full time at my job and pretty much full time at keeping a household running, I often feel like I have 20 tabs open in my brain at once. There are always ...

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...