A small team of brain researchers at South China Normal University, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that the visual processing parts of the brain light ...

What if we could obtain the memory, learning and perception benefits of “power naps” without actually sleeping?

The findings suggest that the human brain is neither completely pre-wired nor a blank slate, but rather a dynamic system.

Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, parts of the brain that are both linked to language, are typically located in the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere controls the movement of the left side ...

Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

Understanding how the brain responds to fear could help treat people with phobias, PTSD, and anxiety.

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

The first is the total area that needs to be covered (i.e., how large is the ... part”, Lozano emphases while pointing to a ...

In contrast, they are sparser in areas responsible ... in the macaque brain probably reflects the prioritizing of more pressing, survival-driven tasks managed by the visual cortex and other ...