Neuroscientists have long known that perception is not a neutral recording of the outside world but a construction, stitched together from sensory data and prior experience. What is becoming harder to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in ...

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The cover of the new book "Whole-brain modeling. Cartography of the dynamics of mind" poses the central question of what ...

It's one of nature's greatest ironies: the human brain lacks the ability to grasp its own complexity. Indeed, the brain is complicated. The three-pound organ housed in our heads consists of roughly 86 ...

Activities like learning a new language as a child or reading, writing, and playing board games later in life all had an impact on Alzheimer’s risk.

BEHIND THE SCARES ON HALLOWEEN. WHEN YOU’RE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH NOISES GOING OFF AND THINGS THAT COULD STARTLE YOU. RESEARCHERS SAY THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPENING TO YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR BODY, AND SO ...

The Leadership Maturity Matrix—a framework I developed integrating research from Anderson, Kegan and other developmental ...