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.

New research suggests that the most ancient evolutionary parts of the brain could be contributing to consciousness.

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.

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.

From solving puzzles to masterfully playing a game of chess, current artificial intelligence tools have employed algorithms ...

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

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