Nostalgic songs spark stronger urges to dance than familiar ones, revealing emotion’s deep role in musical groove.

Resting state fMRI is also great for figuring out which parts of the brain are functionally connected—researchers just need to find areas that light up together when the brain is idly noodling ...

The machine tracks where all the oxygen-carrying blood is going, and the places that ‘light up’ with oxygen are the brain regions being used the most. The researchers recruited people who felt ...

They also found that the visual parts of the brain that light up when a person without the disorder conjures an image also light up when a person with aphantasia tries to conjure the same image ...

The video itself comes from a study the scientists conducted to chart the brain activity of moving ... protein that would strongly react (i.e., light up) when introduced to calcium, the latter ...