Does the deaf brain "see" with its ears? New research shows the auditory cortex maps visual space through selective ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...

This important cross-species study tests whether the corpus callosum contains parallel, segregated pathways for ipsilateral and contralateral visual-field information, rather than mixed inputs from ...

When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and ...

A brain that develops in the deprivation of one sense reorganizes itself in surprising ways, revealing remarkable ...

Kurdi is among a small group of people worldwide with a condition called aphantasia, or the inability to recreate mental ...

Some fish oil supplements may disrupt brain healing in people who have experienced repeated mild traumatic brain injuries, a ...

For decades, neuroscientists assumed the inside of a mammal’s nose was essentially a jumble: more than a thousand types of ...

Stanford University researchers have discovered that the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) in mice encodes information about distant locations during moments of immobility, a process they call non-local ...

Fish oil has long been praised as brain-boosting, but new research suggests the story may be more complicated. Scientists found that in people with repeated mild head injuries, a key omega-3 fatty ...

Does your brain really reveal the metaphysical? Here’s what brain science can—and cannot—tell us about immortality.

The company has introduced Dual and Phase, two wearable headbands that claim to bridge the gap between sleep and conscious exploration ...