Being able to understand speech is essential to our evolution as humans. Hearing lets us perceive the same word even when spoken at different speeds or pitches, and also gives us extra sensitivity to ...

Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports learning and the encoding of ...

Learn how specialized sensory cells and 500 million neurons help octopuses recognize mates and reproduce through touch alone.

Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. The three-dimensional recordings could provide ...

Researchers at Tulane University have identified brain circuits that help determine how fear responses change as perceived ...

How does the brain choose between fight, flight, or freeze? Tulane University scientists have discovered the neural pathways ...

Researchers have identified a specific class of brain neurons that dies during multiple sclerosis because inflammation ...

The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, complete with blueprints, zoning rules, and emergent neighborhoods that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bilal Haider, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Despite the nursery ...