New research suggests that premature babies and even full-term newborns experience pain very differently than adults do.

Your brain’s "sixth sense" is not a psychic power but a skill, powered by neuroplasticity, that can bring clarity, creativity, and deeper insight into your life.

Differences in political beliefs appear to be rooted in brain differences in how we process emotion. Understanding our ...

Introduction Humans and other animals continually adapt their behavior in response to a rapidly changing environment, which requires speed and flexibility in evaluating environmental feedback.

Far from being lofty abstract ideals, our sense of right and wrong is woven into our biology. Modern neuroscience reveals that our brains literally reward us for treating others fairly and for placing ...

The action selection system is involved in learning and subjective value encoding. Actions that follow a decision seem to be processed predominantly in the anterior cingulate cortex. [55, 56 ...