A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how ...

New neuroscience reveals sleep is an active brain process, not just rest. Parts of your brain remain awake during deep sleep, ...

According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he explains in the ...

Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

Think you see the world as it is? Think again. The brain’s shortcuts make us efficient—but also deeply biased.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Yale University have created a multidimensional, molecular map of how the mouse ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?

A large-scale brain imaging analysis reveals that our brains can forecast what kinds of messages will go viral.

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 ...

New research suggests that socialising ... “Meaningful interaction engages several parts of the brain simultaneously, from the regions that process language and emotion to those that store and ...

From attention to metacognition and memory, here are 15 tips to apply the latest insights from cognitive science to how students learn.

The rhythmic click of needles. The softness of yarn running over fingertips. The satisfying logic of knit, purl, repeat. Knitting—and other so-called “grandma hobbies”—is making a comeback, especially ...