In brain studies of forgiveness, researchers find that forgiving activates structures and pathways in the brain that improve ...

Direct brain recordings reveal that the thalamus, especially its intralaminar and medial nuclei, actively shapes conscious ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

The gray matter reductions in the prefrontal cortex correlated with higher scores ... beliefs are not solely determined by brain anatomy. Instead, the structural differences may reflect long ...

Most scientists agree that categorizing an object - like thinking of a carrot as either a root vegetable or a party snack - ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually entails not just stopping use of a substance but also discovering or ...

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.

The team also used a combination of mathematical modelling and existing brain scans to map the size and location of lesions in the medial prefrontal cortex. The results suggest that specific ...