A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying and teaching students with math learning disabilities.Credit: Flickr/timypenburg
A new theory regarding how the brain first learns basic math could alter approaches to identifying...
Cooperation -- between family members, friends, coworkers and even governments around the world -- is viewed as a cornerstone of human society. But not everyone cooperates equally, as anyone who's worked on a group project knows. And one factor...
The recently-discovered species Homo naledi may have had a pint-sized brain, but that brain packed a big punch. New research by Ralph Holloway and colleagues -- that include researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa --...
The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like the teddy bear on the left.
Credit: Salk Institute
If you think self-driving cars can't get here...
The studies show that playing video games can change how our brains perform, and even their structure.
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Scientists have collected and summarized studies looking at how video games can shape our brains and behavior. Research...
MRI-derived gray matter measures, density, volume, mass, and cortical thickness, show distinct age and sex effects, as well as age-dependent intermodal correlations around adolescence.
Credit: Penn Medicine
For years, the common narrative in human developmental neuroimaging has been that gray matter...
This image shows regions of the white matter skeleton in which connectivity in IED subjects was significantly lower than healthy controls.
Credit: Lee, et al, Neuropsychopharmacology
People with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions...
How does stress -- which, among other things, causes our bodies to divert resources from non-essential functions -- affect the basic exchange of materials that underlies our everyday life? Weizmann Institute of Science researchers investigated this question by looking...
It has often been claimed that humans learn language using brain components that are specifically dedicated to this purpose. Now, new evidence strongly suggests that language is in fact learned in brain systems that are also used for many...
University of California, Berkeley neuroscientists have tracked the progress of a thought through the brain, showing clearly how the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain coordinates activity to help us act in response to a perception.
Recording the...
Many patients with neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety or depression experience negative moods that lead them to focus on the possible downside of a given situation more than the potential benefit.
MIT neuroscientists have now pinpointed a brain region that...
