Some brain teasers use words, like riddles while others use numbers or logic. But one of the most popular kinds is the "spot ...

How does the brain store knowledge so that you actually remember what you have learned the next day or even later? To find ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

When someone saw real projected lines, activity in the fusiform gyrus was stronger than when they knew they were simply ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Common symptoms include headaches, seizures, persistently feeling sick, vomiting and drowsiness, mental or behavioural ...

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.

Compared to earlier attempts to detail small regions of a fly's brain, this new map contains seven times more ... the raw wiring diagram between neurons is like knowing which structures on satellite ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

When we try to spot something hidden or solve a tricky riddle, our brain works harder and gets stronger over time. Only a few people can find the hidden word in this picture.