The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age. Members of Alison Preston’s research group study fMRI brain ...

The Conversation reports that the brain can be trained like muscles; new challenges and rest help boost brain health and ...

The clip features one of my grandchildren talking about her pre-frontal cortex and amygdala (she should have said amygdalas, because you have two). These are what I would call parts of the maternal ...