Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

We all spend our days thinking, solving problems, making choices, learning new things, yet most of us rarely pause to examine ...

Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and involved in consciousness and motor activity—reveals the thalamus may play ...

For decades, the idea that creativity comes from the right side of the brain has dominated popular culture. People have been told they're either "right-brained" (creative, intuitive) or "left-brained" ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Day and night, my mind is occupied with this thought: Why am I so oblivious to my own heart's issues? From where have I come, and for what purpose? Where am I going? Will you never reveal my homeland?

We wanted to find out what happens when you take the brain’s energy demands seriously,” says Haueis. “The brain is not an abstract computer but an organ that needs energy and has limits. These limits ...