Explore the scientific explanation behind the popular Halloween 'jump scares' that thrill and terrify enthusiasts. Discover ...

The researchers suspected the pathway—known as the social perception pathway—might be functional very early in development.

Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions under uncertainty. Most of the time, you guess right. When you don't, you learn. But when the brain's ability to judge context or assign meaning ...

When we are engaged in a task, our brain's auditory system changes how it works. One of the main auditory centers of the brain, the auditory cortex, is filled with neural activity that is not ...

A video intended to be watched briefly before sleep extends until dawn. Though vowing to abstain from alcohol, one succumbs ...

Every desire, fear, and act of love is the cosmos thinking through our minds. The ARCH model exposes the brain's hidden architecture—evolution's grand design for behavior.

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience has found that aggression can spread socially among mice, but only when ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil ...

Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. Initially ...

Social hierarchies are everywhere-think of high school dramas, where the athletes are portrayed as most popular, or large ...

Zuoxin Wang (left), professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mohamed Kabbaj (right), professor of ...

A new study has identified five distinct sleep profiles, linking brain activity and sleep quality with a number of different ...