The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) plays a key role in interpreting social hierarchies and facial emotions, offering insight into anxiety and mood disorders.

The researchers proposed two possible ways musical training might influence the aging brain. The first is called Bolster Compensation. This idea suggests that musical training strengthens the brain by ...

A study found the brain adapts to conversation timescales, using overlapping systems for short exchanges and distinct ...

Two lateral striatal subregions integrate the acquisition of stimulus-based decision-making in spatiotemporally and functionally different manners, challenging the prior model through a dominance ...

Your brain’s "sixth sense" is not a psychic power but a skill, powered by neuroplasticity, that can bring clarity, creativity, and deeper insight into your life.

There's a chance you've seen people wiggle their ears and thought it's a neat trick. But that's actually the result of many ...

Primary visual cortex (V1) has direct reciprocal connections with posterior extrastriate areas V2, V3, V3A, V4 and MT (Refs 1, 3; red). (Not all back-projections to V1 are shown; extensive ...

When you have a nosebleed, it can be related to medications, health conditions, or simply dry air. Here's what you need to ...

Understanding how our brain interprets social hierarchy or facial emotions may be key to advancing our knowledge of anxiety and mood disorders. This is the aim of the project led by researcher Maya ...

This useful study employs optogenetics, genetically-encoded dopamine and serotonin sensors, and patch-clamp electrophysiology to investigate modulations of neurotransmitter release between striatal ...