People live and interact in a complex web of social relations, processing a vast amount of social information every day and navigating complex social networks — the webs of relationships, friendships ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...

The following is a guest post from Lori Goldberg, CEO of digital marketing agency Silverlight Digital. There are moments every day that we reach for our phones to see what's going on. We find these ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

Researchers found that mental representations known as cognitive maps, located in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational ...

How do we make decisions about a situation we have not encountered before? New work from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, shows that we can solve abstract problems ...

North/South isn’t the biggest divide in how we think of the United States, according to a new stereotyping study. That would be East/West; and after that, religious/atheist and conservative/liberal.

New research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas shows that certain cognitive training exercises can help reduce depression and improve brain health in individuals ...

In Montreal, we have two seasons: winter and construction. And winter is nearly over. As road closures make our winding one-way streets even more difficult to navigate, it’s sometimes hard to imagine ...