In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Memristors, or “memory resistors,” are the leading candidate for replacing synapses in a neuromorphic (brain-like) computer.

To fill in the full picture of what is happening around us, our brains process attention systematically, taking in general facts first and then narrowing down to specifics.

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...

Music affects us so deeply that it can essentially take control of our brain waves and get our bodies moving. Now, ...

Using mice with stroke-induced brain damage, the researchers found that injections of human stem cells could successfully ...

Parents and early educators play an active role in fostering a child's healthy brain development through responsive ...