How neurons in the brain react to stimuli may explain why our perception of time is subjective, according to a study. The study published in JNeurosci involved 18 healthy volunteers, 11 males and 7 ...

When you finish reading this sentence, look away from the screen for a moment and repeat it back in your head. Do you know exactly where in your brain this inner “voice” is speaking from? Researchers ...

"Any monkey can reach for a peanut," he said, "but only a human can reach for the stars or even understand what that means." Ramachandran's lab is continuing work on linking other brain areas, the ...

This is a view of the right brain hemisphere: during incongruent experiments, the supramarginal gyrus (yellow) is particularly connected to the dark purple brain areas. The light purple areas are ...

Scientists have discovered that when the right supramarginal gyrus doesn't function properly or when we have to make particularly quick decisions, our empathy is severely limited. Scientists have ...

New scientific research presented at this week’s Society for Neuroscience 2022 conference by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows that a brain-machine interface (BMI), also known as ...

Are some people born with a brain that is wired to be more empathetic? Can compassion be learned? What daily habits or life experiences reinforce selfishness, narcissism, and at a far extreme ...

A region crossing the folded surface of the top of the brain, called the dorsal precentral gyrus, plays an essential role in how people use the sound of their voices to control how they want the words ...

Scientists are one step closer to reading people’s minds after developing new technology that can decode internal speech with nearly 80 per cent accuracy. Some people are unable to speak due to ...