The prospect of big corporations or political lobbyists enlisting brain science to manipulate consumer and voter behavior has inevitably raised concerns in some quarters: a watchdog agency founded ...

Why do humans prefer a simple shortcut over a more complex solution? Researchers have found the answer in our brains.

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Brains are in short supply. Neuroscientists need brain tissue of all types to study the diseases that affect more than ...

A new study sheds light on why some people are more tolerant of physical activity. Here, the lead researchers share three ...

Brain-training games may have cognitive benefits, but other challenging activities are proven to help our brains function at ...

During rest and sleep, memory traces replay in the brain. The dialogue between brain regions during replay is thought to stabilize labile memory traces for long-term storage. However, because replay ...