brains

Because sound travels much more slowly than light, we can often see distant events before we hear them.

A new plastic “skin” can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver sensory input directly to a living brain cell.

People are inherently bad at watching computers work, and unlikely to get any better, no matter how much training we get, new research with airline pilots shows.

“Body maps” show how the parts of the brain associated with touch map the surface of the body.

Parents’ attitudes toward justice influence their babies’ neural responses to morally charged situations, new research shows.

Sudden, traumatizing sounds can form lasting memories in the brain’s “flight or fight” region.

You see a guy at the grocery store—is he a college classmate or just a lookalike? One tiny spot in the brain holds the answer.

Some stressful experiences—such as childhood abuse—are so overwhelming and traumatic that the memories hide in the brain.

By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person’s brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, new research shows.

Dogs have a natural ability to process faces, a small study that put dogs in an fMRI machine shows.

New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than “practice makes perfect.”

Mothers who are “mind-minded,” or able to “tune in” to their baby’s thoughts and feelings by engaging in baby talk, may be able to help their child understand the thoughts of others as they grow.

Music training, introduced as late as high school, may help improve how a teenager’s brain responds to sound and could sharpen their hearing and language skills, too.

When people with very high IQs are given moderately difficult task, their brains work more efficiently compared to people with slightly above-average IQs.

Infants can use expectations about the world to rapidly shape their developing brains, according to new research.

Even before a child learns to read, a quick biological test may be able to identify if she or he will have literacy challenges or learning disabilities.

There is nothing quite like the sound of a scream to make the hair on the back of the neck stand up.

Because sound travels much more slowly than light, we can often see distant events before we hear them.

A new plastic “skin” can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver sensory input directly to a living brain cell.

People are inherently bad at watching computers work, and unlikely to get any better, no matter how much training we get, new research with airline pilots shows.

“Body maps” show how the parts of the brain associated with touch map the surface of the body.

Parents’ attitudes toward justice influence their babies’ neural responses to morally charged situations, new research shows.

Sudden, traumatizing sounds can form lasting memories in the brain’s “flight or fight” region.

You see a guy at the grocery store—is he a college classmate or just a lookalike? One tiny spot in the brain holds the answer.

Some stressful experiences—such as childhood abuse—are so overwhelming and traumatic that the memories hide in the brain.

By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person’s brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, new research shows.

Dogs have a natural ability to process faces, a small study that put dogs in an fMRI machine shows.

New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than “practice makes perfect.”

Mothers who are “mind-minded,” or able to “tune in” to their baby’s thoughts and feelings by engaging in baby talk, may be able to help their child understand the thoughts of others as they grow.

Music training, introduced as late as high school, may help improve how a teenager’s brain responds to sound and could sharpen their hearing and language skills, too.

When people with very high IQs are given moderately difficult task, their brains work more efficiently compared to people with slightly above-average IQs.

Infants can use expectations about the world to rapidly shape their developing brains, according to new research.

Even before a child learns to read, a quick biological test may be able to identify if she or he will have literacy challenges or learning disabilities.

There is nothing quite like the sound of a scream to make the hair on the back of the neck stand up.