A study of nearly 38,000 adults shows that the number of kids correlates with coordination of brain regions’ activities — regardless of parents’ sex.

Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the ...

A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the ...

Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the National Institute of Information and ...

Researchers have revealed neural circuits in the brainstem that are crucially involved in implementing decisions by controlling three fundamental behavioral states or strategies: perseverance, ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Georgia Tech has discovered how lateral inhibition helps our brains process visual ...

Psychology is a scientific discipline that focuses on understanding mental functions and the behaviour of individuals and groups. A new study challenges the classic view of memory consolidation as ...

In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...

The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example ...

'It does mean everything to me': Pacific Break winner Chris Kamu'ana Rohoimae performs at WOMADelaide ...