Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.

New multidisciplinary research shows that the brain forms memories of cold experiences and uses them to control our metabolism. The study shows that cold memories form in the brain -- and map out how ...

They become aware, mid-dream, that they’re dreaming. They explore their fantasies with the same sense of self as they have ...

Great thinking feels hard for a reason. Mental fatigue signals growth—and there are ways to train your brain to think sharper, deeper, and stronger over time.

“On day 1, the brain doesn’t represent the space very well,” says research scientist Wei Guo, the study’s lead author.

When we look for methods to care for our skin, one of the ones that is always recommended is exfoliation. This helps to remove dead skin cells and regenerate the skin, which encour ...

Scientists have mapped the brain's electrical activity during lucid dreaming, offering unprecedented insights into this ...

Findings could help illuminate role of brain region in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking: paper Chinese and French scientists have developed an extremely detailed ...

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a ...

These paintings are both by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian but display strikingly different styles. The house on the left is ...

PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

A new study has identified the protein hnRNP A1 as a key player in the production and maintenance of myelin, the fatty sheath ...