Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from ... commonly mapped out based on four large regions—the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, and the occipital lobe—with ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

A new study has identified brain regions crucial for remembering words and how they are affected in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Music is native to the human mind. There is not a culture ... emotional part of the brain—between the temporal lobes on the sides of the brain and the frontal lobes behind the forehead.

Physical and imagined movement through real-world environments may use the same neural mechanism in the brain, suggests a Nature Human Behaviour paper. The findings might help us to better understand ...

to avoid damaging the parts of the brain that are needed for memory to work well." In the first study of its kind, the researchers examined 84 people with temporal lobe epilepsy (epilepsy arising ...

A novel study has shed new light on the brain structures critical to human verbal memory, offering valuable insights for ...

Mesial temporal ... Human herpesvirus-6B (HHV-6B) is a β-herpesvirus known to cause febrile seizures in young children, and high viral loads of HHV-6B have been documented in brain tissue ...