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PHILADELPHIA -- The man in the hospital bed was playing video games on a laptop, absorbed and relaxed despite the bustle of scientists on all sides and the electrodes threaded [...]

Scientists' discovery that rodents, bats and nonhuman primates have a system in the brain for what amounts to dead reckoning navigation is one of the most important brain research developments [...]

FOR decades, scientists have studied areas deep within the brain that seem associated with pleasure and addiction. Put an electrode in that part of a rat's brain, and it will [...]

Although baby humans and baby chimpanzees both start out with undeveloped forebrains, a new study reports that the human brain increases in volume much more rapidly early on. The growth [...]

Researchers have long known that the brain links all kinds of new facts, related or not, when they are learned about the same time. Just as the taste of a [...]

It is always a challenge to remember a new computer password after an old one has expired, or to memorize a new phone number. That is because the brain is [...]

For years scientists have dreamed of developing a genuine memory booster, a drug that could tune the brain's biological search engine so that it's better at retrieving not only recently [...]

The part of the brain thought to be responsible for processing visual text may not require vision at all, researchers report in the journal Current Biology. This region, known as [...]

The visions seem to swirl up from the brain's sewage system at the worst possible times -- during a job interview, a meeting with the boss, an apprehensive first date, […]

Imagine that you have ditched your laptop and turned off your smartphone. You are beyond the reach of YouTube, Facebook, e-mail, text messages. You are in a Twitter-free zone, sitting […]