The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

A new study shows that music changes brain activity during eye contact, helping people feel more connected and socially ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

A brief period of exercise may do more for your brain than you expect. New research led by the University of Iowa shows that even a single workout can rapidly shift how your brain processes memory.

BraDiPho was presented in a paper published in Nature Communications, with Laura Vavassori as first author. She is a doctoral student at the Center for Brain/Mind Sciences (Cimec) of the University of ...

The human brain contains more connections between neurons than there are stars in the Milky Way. Decoding the electrical ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on ...

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language-processing regions in the brain, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Bo Liu ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...