Walking backward fundamentally disrupts the brain’s deeply ingrained movement patterns. From early childhood, humans develop ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and the University of California–San Francisco have employed a novel brain-mapping technique to pinpoint memory-related brain cells that are ...

Online tests of women's reaction times offer insights into cognitive function and could help fill data gaps on early cognitive problems, potentially shedding light on dementia development later in ...

A new study has uncovered how the brain seamlessly transforms sounds, speech patterns, and words into the flow of everyday ...

In the brain, not all blood flow is created equal. RIKEN researchers have developed a detailed cortical layer map of the ...

Brain aging follows a surprising trajectory with a potentially game-changing discovery: there appears to be a crucial "window ...

Our brains constantly create internal maps of the world, allowing us to navigate spaces, recall past experiences, ...