The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex.

A new study examines 44,558 brain teaser tests to better understand the nature of human reasoning.

Within the Psychological and Brain Sciences program, students have the option to focus in specific areas: Mind, Brain and Behavior, Human Development or Clinical and Health. For a select number of ...

This idea of interfering languages suggests that different areas of the brain compete for resources. ... OECD, 2007; OECD Educational Ministerial Meeting, November 4–5, 2010.

Too much activity in certain areas of the brain is bad for memory and attention. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 08 / 160823125217.htm ...

One reason is its powerful and profound effects on the brain. Here are five surprising ways that being active is good for your brain—and how you can harness these benefits yourself. 1. ... Areas of ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

Using this method, the researchers divided the human brain into 180 cortical areas, including 97 new ones. One of these regions, for example, is a big groove called POS2 that’s right in front of ...

In this case, they were interested in whether talking about the self would correspond with increased neural activity in areas of the brain associated with motivation and reward.

Welcome to the cognitive psychology graduate program, offered by the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. Our primary goal is to train a new generation of ...

Areas of the Brain. Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff. ... Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, parts of the brain that are both ... extending across all the brain’s lobes. Just 1.5 to 5 ...