The human brain is known to contain a wide range of ... particularly its outermost layer (i.e., the cerebral cortex), gradually become specialized and take on specific roles have been the focus ...

Now, Cortical Labs has successfully developed a brain-on-a-chip computer primarily designed to aid scientists and researchers ...

Neurologist Christopher Walsh discovered genes that direct cerebral cortex development ... What a perfect way to study the genetics of the human brain.” Huttenlocher was happy to collaborate ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they're often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

The smallest grooves on the brain's surface, unique to humans, have largely been ignored by anatomists, but recent studies show that they're related to cognitive performance, including face ...

It may seem remarkable, but significant evidence shows that humans could learn this sound-based “superpower” with some practice.

“REM sleep is when your brain does some of its most important cleanup and memory storage work,” said co-corresponding author ...

Neuroscientist Lucy L. Brown, Ph. D., and the late biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., are the writing team behind ...