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

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

CMU researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and have developed a theoretical framework that could explain the origins of this selectivity.

Research in mice identifies brain circuitry that supports certain reward-based decisions.

BEIJING -- Researchers from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed the intrinsic ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual ...

Technology can physically change our brains as it becomes an integral part of daily life – but every time we outsource a function, we risk letting our ability atrophy away. What happens when that ...

The secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that caused by the observer moving through it. Known as the 'motion-source ...

Figure launches Helix, an AI that allows robots to recognize language and reasoning like humans and grasp household objects ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals from a ...