A study of people who underwent surgery to treat epilepsy suggests the hippocampus may process words and speech when people ...

It's a question that has baffled scientists for centuries - what happens in the seconds before you die? Now, researchers from ...

New research suggests pregnancy doesn’t impair the brain—it reshapes it, refining memory, attention, and emotional awareness ...

While the body is under anaesthesia, the brain is not fully inactive; it continues processing language even when unconscious, ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information. While our senses gather a mountain of data every second, our actual ...

A team led by Professor Ed X. Wu and Dr. Alex T. L. Leong has achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how the brain ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

Betty faces a seemingly simple choice between an apple and a donut. But as we'll soon discover, the brain's decision-making process is far from straightforward. Betty is standing before the healthy ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...