Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

A study sheds light on how networks in the brain detect new information, offering insight into disorders like schizophrenia.

A new mathematical model sheds light on how the brain processes different cues, such as sights and sounds, during decision making.

Humans and certain animals appear to have an innate capacity to learn relationships between different objects or events in ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures, the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen—like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

BEIJING -- A collaborative team of scientists from China and other countries has mapped the most refined chimpanzee brain atlas to date, providing novel insights into the evolution of the human brain, ...