Not all puzzles require complex calculations—some simply test your ability to notice what others overlook. Spot-the-mistake ...

The system harnesses technology similar to that of devices like Alexa and Siri, according to the researchers, and improves on ...

A “Goldilocks” measure of green space might help stave off dementia, but an excess could lead to cognitive decline ...

Dysfunctional Family. A family tree of tau folds now incorporates two new structures—P301L, P301T (bottom)—and fills in ...

However, whether our brain uses tree-structured representations is still ... Neural activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) was recorded while the monkeys performed this task.

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

Those living on blocks with more trees showed a boost in heart and ... showed decreased activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain tied to depressive rumination—and ...

If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

Now, however, researchers have identified a previously undiscovered brain network that might be behind this mind-body connection, according to new research published today (April 19) in Nature. The ...

Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted primarily to processing visual information (Van Essen et al., 1992; Van Essen ...