Penn Marketing assistant professor Gideon Nave recently found a slight relationship between brain size and intelligence, in what was the largest study ever conducted on the subject. Nave worked with ...

The brain's ability to track orientation and position is essential for memory, navigation, and decision-making. Traditionally ...

Scientists have engineered ferrets genetically to study abnormally small brain size in humans -- and, in the process, discovered hints as to how our brains evolved.

Now, after the lab team’s decade of close collaboration with scientists at Google, that data has turned into the most detailed map of a human brain sample ever created. 300 million images ...

That's smaller than the modern human brain, which is about 73 to 97 cubic inches (1,200 to 1,600 cubic cm), but comparable in size to the brain of Australopithecus sediba. Australopithecines are ...

Rather, amygdala size was specifically related to the makeup of one’s social network. Researchers have known for some time that non-human primates who live and operate in larger social groups tend to ...

A woodpecker's brain takes a big hit with every peck against a tree. Yet the animals don't get brain damage. A team of scientists says the reason is the brain's very small size.

Ten years ago, Dr. Jeff Lichtman — a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University — received a small brain sample in his lab.. Although tiny, the 1 cubic millimeter of ...