Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they're often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony ...

Neuroscientist Lucy L. Brown, Ph. D., and the late biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., are the writing team behind ...

Music has a special power to move us and stir our emotions Anyone who has ever wiped tears away from their eyes listening to their favourite sad song will know how powerful simple notes and chords can ...

The processes via which cells in the brain, particularly its outermost layer (i.e., the cerebral cortex), gradually become specialized and take on specific roles have been the focus of many past ...

Neuroscience fascinates, but behavior guides instruction. Teachers shouldn't need brain scans to know when learning is really ...

Projection neurons are glutamatergic neurons characterized by a typical pyramidal morphology, and function to transmit information both between different regions of the cortex and to other regions ...

The cortex refers to the outermost layer of the cerebral hemispheres or cerebrum. The cerebral cortex in humans is folded into gyri and consists of six horizontal layers of neurons, with distinct ...

May 27, 2025 — A specific group of nerve cells in the brain stem appears to control how semaglutide affects appetite and weight -- without causing ... Why After 2000 Years We Still Don't Know ...