The human brain has long been celebrated as the pinnacle of cognitive evolution, but the animal kingdom harbors ... Recent research by neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel has revealed that parrots ...

From birth to the last moments of life, the human brain is known to change and evolve significantly, both in terms of its ...

GNWT, by contrast, argues that consciousness occurs when certain information is “broadcast” across a network of brain regions ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Why does the brain split visual spatial perception between its hemispheres? A new review by neuroscientists examines the advantages and trade-offs, and how the brain ultimately makes vision feel ...

However, he said mapping the human brain connectome in similar synaptic resolution would be a dramatically more difficult endeavor. “The human brain is another factor of 1,500 or so larger than ...

The human brain is more than seven times the expected size. Although evolution has enlarged the human brain, it hasn’t done so uniformly: some brain areas have ballooned more than others.

poorly understood neural structures underlying human reasoning. “Our findings show a close connection between the right frontal brain network involved in reasoning and the right frontal brain ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential for logical thinking and problem solving. The findings, published in Brain, help to increase our ...