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

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

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

How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental ...

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 ...

The Joy and Pain of Learning New Things as an Older Human. From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning (), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to ...