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 ...

The 10 percent brain myth is false. We use our entire brain. Neuroscience points to several methods of enhancing brain efficiency, rather than tapping into "unused" parts.

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 ...

It turns out that our ability to plan, organize, and problem-solve does not define us as human beings. It's time for people ...

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 ...