The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation ...

Scientists have long known that hope aids behavior. Recent research shows that individual differences in spontaneous brain ...

Dr Eben Alexander was a neurosurgeon of 25 years when he fell into a coma in 2008 and claimed to have visited the afterlife - ...

The brain then updates the value of a food based on this information and uses that data when you reencounter the flavor. So the next time you pass a bakery, for example, that internal record, or ...

A midbrain structure responsible for eye movement has been discovered that also plays a key role in cognitive perception and judgment.

We might not think we remember something, but attempting to recall it still fires up activity in our brain linked to memory, ...

Howard Tucker has been practicing medicine since 1947. Ahead of his 103rd birthday, the neurologist shares his thoughts on ...

When faced with a tricky maze task involving hidden information, humans instinctively toggle between two clever mental ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen sits down to talk about memory, history and the human condition in the latest episode ...