The human brain can store salient information, such as numbers, instructions or other details that are important for ...

A team of Würzburg neuroscientists investigates communication pathways in the brain and predicts intelligence. A new study ...

Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It's a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to ...

Research reveals that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and hippocampus (DH) play distinct roles in resolving ambiguous ...

Many known languages, for example, have no words for numerals above 2 or 3. A linguist who curated a database of the world’s languages in 2015 estimated that of the 6,880 languages for which there are ...

A new study is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This research provides novel evidence that ...

An analysis of data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD) study found that emotion dysregulation ...

Auditory hallucinations are a common schizophrenia symptom. Researchers have mapped the signal that could cause these ...

In pathology-ridden layers of the cortex, synaptic genes faded while inflammation flared. In women, inflammatory and vascular pathways stood out, while neuron and oligodendrocyte disease signatures ...

Newborns can detect non-adjacent dependencies in sound patterns, relying on the frontal cortex, while six-month-olds engage ...

Thinking about numbers engages a brain region linked to fundamental functions, offering key insights for education and ...