The ability to quickly recognize sounds, particularly the vocalizations made by other animals, is known to contribute to the ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.

Have you ever walked into a room and instantly known where you stood, even with your eyes closed? Or maybe you’ve felt time ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

“You get a sense of how complicated you are. We’re looking at one tiny part ... of a mouse’s brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons and the hundreds of ...

THIS image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse’s brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they ...

The sample comes from an outer part of the brain - known as the cortex - a region which is involved in sight, the Times reports. Dr Forrest Collman, of the same Institute, said: 'By studying how ...

WASHINGTON - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision ...