For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A representative MRI tractography image of the first era of the human brain. The image is representative of the general pattern ...

“You will in fact burn more energy during an intense cognitive task than you would vegging out watching Oprah or whatever,” ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How does the brain think? – Tom, age 16, San ...

A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing the brain’s blood vessels. It's the missing link between exercise and ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response. Get ...

As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.