A new way of mapping activity and connections between different regions of the brain has revealed fresh insights into how higher order functions like language, thought and attention, are organized. A ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...

Oct. 16 -- THURSDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've achieved a breakthrough in understanding how the human brain computes language. "Two central mysteries of human brain ...

If you’re an inherently self-aware or emotionally intelligent person, your brain probably functions at a different level than ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...