New insight into decision-making pathways in the brain may impact the way engineers think about artificial intelligence, ...

New research challenges traditional views of how the brain makes decisions, suggesting that even its earliest regions play a ...

The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...

An international team of scientists led by the University of Surrey has discovered that a form of safe, painless, and non-invasive brain stimulation could help people who are at risk of falling behind ...

If you've ever felt like anxiety is taking over your brain, you might have been on to something. Neuroscience now confirms that chronic anxiety doesn't just alter your mood—it reshapes the structure ...

When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated tools, or when a child invents the rules of a new game, what happens in the ...