Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, according to researchers from the School ...

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 ...

What unique processes conspire to create a healthy, functional human brain? How can we be so genetically similar to, say, chimpanzees, and yet be light-years more sophisticated cognitively and ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

Most people have seen pictures of the brain and know that brain damage can cause a wide range of problems from weak and paralyzed limbs to memory and speech problems, but the rest is a mystery. For ...