The human brain reduces neural circuits during the process of growthThe human brain, reduces the connections between nerve ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

The human brain is constantly taking in information about the world through sight, touch, hearing and the other senses. Influential theories in neuroscience and psychology suggest that it also ...

Even under general anesthesia, the human brain can analyze language, recognize different types of words, and predict what comes next in a story, according to a surprising discovery by Baylor ...

For decades, scientists have argued over one of neuroscience's most fundamental questions: Can the adult human brain grow new neurons? Now, researchers say they finally have the answer, and it changes ...

A recent study may reshape our understanding of brain evolution and open new avenues for studying neurological diseases.

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

We infer what animals experience from how they behave. But can we rely on those same inferences after substantially altering ...

Tracy Larson, University of Virginia assistant professor of biology: We can find cases where animals just do things better than we do. In the case of birds, they show this extreme ability to ...