Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two ...

Brain abnormalities may be a nonspecific antecedent for sexual homicide offending. Studies suggest elevated prevalence of ...

Entrepreneurs are typically torn in a lotof different directions. This type of (in)activity provides clear cognitive benefits ...

That comforting bowl of mac and cheese or warm chocolate chip cookies triggers more than just hunger – they spark deep ...

Specific music has been shown to improve mood, focus, and brain function while performing a stressful task according to a new study.

You can read volumes into an innocent hair pull, a handshake or a seemingly insignificant fashion choice. Here's what ...

Roger Pasquier explains how birds spend the quiet half of their lives even when they're flying and half their brain is awake ...

A playlist of instrumental music with a “strong rhythm” and “simple tonality” can help people boost their mood and productivity, particularly while performing demanding tasks, a groundbreaking new ...

Striatal dopamine (DA) release regulates reward-related learning and behavioural activation and is believed to consist of a short-lived phasic and continuous tonic component. Here, we build a ...

Using portable EEGs, researchers found that when groups of people watch the same health promotion videos, their brain activity syncs up, indicating that the message has gone beyond being seen and ...