What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

And new science is revealing that phrase is more than a figure of speech. According to new neuroscience research, being on the same wavelength is a measurable, real phenomenon happening inside your ...

In an AI-saturated inbox, your brain still knows the difference between a message that was sent to you and one that was sent ...

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 ...

Your brain is carrying a massive reserve of wiring it has never switched on. Researchers at MIT have found that roughly 30 percent of all synapses in the adult mouse cortex are functionally dormant, ...

A night without sleep produced increased markers of connections between brain cells, showing that sleep in humans may be important for restoring cellular balance in the brain, according to a study ...

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 ...