Neuroscience

How do primates, including humans, tell faces apart? Scientists have long attributed this ability to so-called “face-detector” (FD) neurons, thought...

Eating a slice of chocolate cake or spending time with a friend usually stimulates positive feelings, while getting in a...

Researchers studying how the brain makes decisions have, for the first time, recorded the moment-by-moment fluctuations in brain signals that...

Cells that relay information from the ear to the brain can change in significant ways in response to the noise...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used exosomes -- tiny bubbles of protein and fat...

Most of the time, we learn only gradually, incrementally building connections between actions or events and outcomes. But there are...

An international team of scientists has discovered what amounts to a molecular reset button for our internal body clock. Their...

UBC research shows that chemotherapy can lead to excessive mind wandering and an inability to concentrate. Dubbed 'chemo-brain,' the negative...

Study captures how 2 brain systems in mammals cooperate to capture sounds and process information. When people hear the sound...

Every time you make a memory, somewhere in your brain a tiny filament reaches out from one neuron and forms...

Carbon nanotube fibers invented at Rice University may provide the best way to communicate directly with the brain. The fibers...

When we look at a known word, our brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing...

A recent analysis has brought new clarity to the debate over whether brain training exercises can improve people's ability to...

By the time most people receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease — based on clinical signs of mental decline —...