In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...

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Neuropsychologists examine how brain function influences behavior, focusing on cognitive processes rather than labels to ...

When teaching a Photoshop class at a children's summer camp, Stevens undergraduate student Gursimran Vasir noticed something ...

How junk food outsmarts our brains—by hiding in our memories. New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel ...

A midbrain structure responsible for eye movement has been discovered that also plays a key role in cognitive perception and ...

The human brain loves seeing patterns, even when they aren’t really there. ... NGC 2169 is a pair of open clusters, two groups of stars each born together from the same cloud of nebular material.