When someone saw real projected lines, activity in the fusiform gyrus was stronger than when they knew they were simply ...

You open the book by talking about the self that is, at its simplest terms, our past self, our perceived current self and our future self. What you just described is the beauty of what the brain does.

In the brain, the hippocampus region, crucial for learning and memory, records each event in three different forms. The earliest neurons to develop, called "early" neurons, create a copy of the ...

Paleoneurobiologist Emiliano Bruner explores the superpower of projecting images and words that has allowed us to make a ...

Inaccurate metaphors about the mind can cause real harm, for instance leading educators to 'train' children like algorithms.

The power of nostalgia: What science tells us about longing for the past. An expert explains what is happening in the brain during a nostalgic memory and how nostalgia can help relieve stress ...

The human brain organoid field started a little over 10 years ago, when researchers including Yoshiki Sasasi at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Juergen Knoblich and Madeline Lancaster ...

“The Roman empire was a very big part of history,” he says defensively. Presumably some of this is performative, an attempt to project oneself as the sort of history bro who can mansplain ...

A new device records brain activity from inside blood vessels The new tool, which was pioneered by a Stanford postdoc, could make it possible to study and treat the brain without causing tissue ...