Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and ...

After witnessing my father’s tortuous battle with the illness I wanted to understand my own risk, so I visited a brain expert ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorise distinct objects in their brains – much earlier than previously ...

Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

A new study found a short siesta is enough to reorganize connections between nerve cells so that new information can be ...

Brain-reading earbuds monitor neural pleasure signals while you listen, then predict songs to give you chills. Tests show promising results.

Part personal narrative, part primer on the science of memory, and part exploration of the implications of cutting-edge brain research, it’s an odd but intriguing volume. I was curious to read it in ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Talking to yourself feels deeply human. Inner speech helps you plan, reflect, and solve problems without saying a word.

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

As our behavior is determined by our brains, understanding which neurological circuits are involved at the beginning of the ...

Think your cerebellum only coordinates fluid movements? New 2026 research reveals how your "little brain" also creates the ...