The Brain

In a new study, psychologists find that a larger pupil size has a strong link to fluid intelligence,...

An old riddle has been spreading around the Internet over the last few months, seemingly stumping pe...

The brain and the testis share more common proteins than other tissue types in the human body....

Intake of caffeine helped the group complete the task, but it did not significantly improve their ta...

Everyone loves a good optical illusion (who doesn't like realizing that their own senses are unrelia...

The Tsimane of the Bolivian Amazon experience considerably less brain atrophy that Americans or Euro...

People with misophonia experience intense disgust when hearing certain trigger sounds, and a new stu...

New research suggests that the infant hippocampus may be capable of statistical learning before we d...

A recent experiment saw people learning to use a specially designed robotic extra thumb. Not only di...

A technique used by Aboriginal Australians to remember information has outperformed the Mind Palace ...

If artificial intelligence (AI) is anything to learn from, there’s a good reason your dreams can be ...

Placebo effects might explain why pink drinks appear to boost performances in runners...

A paralyzed man was able to type 90 characters per minute simply by imagining that he was writing by...

Petting dogs does more to reduce students' stress and improve their executive function (for example ...

Mice have been made to socialize more using brain implants that stimulate selected neurons using lig...

People have the ability to distinguish between objects just by bouncing sounds off them....

The implant was used to decode the neural signatures underlying Parkinson's disease symptoms in five...

Air pollution affects the brain as well as the lungs, and even quite short term exposure can cause e...