Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known ...

Your core self may have a home: the Default Mode Network. This marvel of nature creates your sense of self, runs an inner ...

Imagine finding out your friends hosted a dinner party and didn't invite you, or that you were passed over for a job you were ...

Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to ...

Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...

VR and gaming are not just entertainment—they are proving to be powerful tools in helping the brain heal, rewire, and thrive ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience offers insight into how small grooves in the brain’s surface — known as ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Some of the most complex cognitive functions are possible because different sides of your brain control them. Chief among them is speech perception, the ability to interpret ...

It just doesn’t work that way. Another fundamental flaw of the left/right story is that each of the specialized brain areas does not work alone but rather works as part of a system that includes ...