Can the brain keep working when its architecture changes? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have discovered ...

A new study has discovered a direct link between the number of milliseconds it takes a child’s brain to process the form of a printed word and how well that child understands what they are reading.

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

We've all experienced defeat at some point – losing a game, a potential new job, a debate. Now, a new study has found that the brain may learn from losing to others, with a specific group of neurons ...

Developmental electrophysiological adaptations and heat-sensitive proteins, such as TRPV3, in cortical excitatory neurons help maintain stable activity levels when brain temperature rises by 2–3°C ...

“Illusions are fun, but they are also a gateway to perception,” says Hyeyoung Shin, assistant professor of neuroscience at Seoul National University. Shin is the first author of a new study in Nature ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...