For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big ...

“The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain and acts as the central hub for thinking and cognition. It enables you to ...

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." — Emerson M. Pugh.

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

The human brain, weighing roughly three pounds, runs the full spectrum of cognition, motor control, sensory processing, and ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

A new study of neural oscillations during varying stages of consciousness shows that anesthesia doesn’t just knock us out—it reorients brain signals.

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(Science Photo Library/Canva) Exercise works wonders throughout the human body, including the brain. Research suggests an ...

How do you intuitively know that you can walk on a footpath and swim in a lake? Researchers from the University of Amsterdam have discovered unique brain activations that reflect how we can move our ...