A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Scientists have uncovered a fascinating piece of the puzzle surrounding the origins of human language, suggesting that a ...

A new study has found that any alteration to specific creative circuits in the brain can release a spur of creativity. While ...

Galen, a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who lived during Roman times, described the heart as the body’s furnace, ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

This also leads us to wonder if it is the “high” of the romance we are after. Often, it is the “high” triggered by the ...

Is the human perceptual system sensitive to temporal segmentation during normal perception? If so, how does the brain accomplish this segmentation? These are two basic questions about perception ...

Motor neurons can be subdivided into lower motor neurons and upper motor neurons located in the brain and spinal cord. The differences between upper and lower motor neurons involve the level of ...

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Exercise, therefore, is potentially able to improve the brain's capacity to respond to insulin for neuronal function, he said. Insulin is a hormone increasingly recognized to regulate cognition ...