THE HUMAN brain—the enigmatic organ of thought—is the most intricate object in the universe, a tangled orchestra of hundreds of billions of cells generating precise electrical impulses that make up a ...

Starting off this year’s must-read list is a little book that delivers a powerful message about the insidiousness of addiction. Its author, Judith Grisel, is a recovered addict turned neuroscientist ...

From essays that dissect culture and power to novels that reward deep concentration, these books are here to pull readers out ...

This book is high on many lists for the year and deservedly so. Michael Pollan has been a popular guide to understanding the relationship between what we eat and what we are, and in this book he ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — New findings from studies in both people and animals are revealing clues about how sensory information and cognitive processes interact in the brain to produce our perception of the ...

To investigate how information of different visual features is processed in the brain, the neuroscientists from the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute of Primate Research in Göttingen, Germany, ...

Imagine that you are watching a crowded hang-gliding competition, keeping track of a red and orange glider's skillful movements. Our brain uses separate circuits to achieve such outstanding tracking ...