What constitutes a language has been of interest to diverse disciplines — from philosophy and linguistics to psychology, anthropology, and sociology....
Eating 50 grams of walnuts mixed into muesli and yoghurt led to faster reaction times throughout the day and better memory performance later in the day...
University of California, Santa Barbara’s Professor Soojin Yi and colleagues aimed to determine how genes in different types of brain cells have evolved...
Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived during the Middle Devonian epoch around 390 million years ago, is represented...
New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain size increase)...
Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system....
Paleontologists have unearthed the exquisitely preserved remains of Cretaceous enantiornithine bird in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. The extraordinary...
Human cognitive performance can be significantly influenced by the presence of audience members. While often associated with reputation management, which...
The number zero holds a special status among numbers, indispensable for developing a comprehensive number theory. Despite its importance in mathematics,...
Named Youti yuanshi, the newly-identified euarthropod species fills an important gap in our understanding of how the arthropod body plan originated and...
Episodic memory and mental time travel have been viewed as uniquely human traits. This view began to shift with the development of behavioral criteria...
University of Michigan anesthesiologist Kamran Diba and colleagues have found that during sleep, some neurons not only replay the recent past but also...
In a new cross-sectional and longitudinal study, researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital investigated the effects of dietary...
Large theropods were as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as monkeys, according to new research led by University of Bristol paleontologists.
Tyrannosaurus...
During sleep, sporadically, it is possible to find neural patterns of activity in areas of the avian brain that are activated during the generation of...
The idea of growing a functioning human brain-like tissue in a dish has always sounded pretty far-fetched. Towards this goal, researchers at the University...
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), small North American passerine birds that live in deciduous and mixed forests, have extraordinary memories...
