A recent study mapping the human brain reveals that our perception of time does not happen all at once, but rather unfolds ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

A study of people who underwent surgery to treat epilepsy suggests the hippocampus may process words and speech when people ...

The brain's ability to process information is known to be supported by intricate connections between different neuron populations. A key objective of neuroscience research has been to delineate the ...

The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant - to take just one example - the brain mentally starts a new "chapter" of the day, a change that causes a big shift in brain activity.

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

The brain is often described as a dense forest of connections, and for years scientists have searched for ways to trim that ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist, I am always looking for the biological underpinnings of mental processes—not as an effort to distill mystery into molecules, but to ...