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A small brain imaging study suggests that young children show less communication within and between the brain networks ...

Growing evidence suggests that GLP-1 drugs may influence mood, reward processing, cognition, reproductive health, and ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Although whole numbers and fractions are processed differently in the brain, when you compare their values, a single "mental map" akin to a number line lights up.

An fMRI study of 16 cognitive tasks found that cortical connectivity dimensionality predicts whether task representations are ...

Devices that link human minds to computers are progressing rapidly. Already, these brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are ...

Scientists have long assumed dogs recognize familiar words through repetition and reward, but new EEG research reveals something far stranger happening inside a dog's brain within fractions of a ...

Discover how researchers are looking beyond individual neurons to understand how genetic variations shape activity across ...

A model of the brain’s visual cortex suggests how neural activity can remain highly variable without making perception ...

Scientists have mapped one of the most mysterious parts of the human brain in unprecedented detail 1. Their results detail ...

MRI study of 20 adults reveals a shared numerical map that orders whole numbers and fractions by magnitude in the parietal ...