What you see first in this optical illusion, a duck or a rabbit, can help determine whether you are a 'logical' or 'creative' ...

Cats sniff unknown humans more than their owners, showing a side preference in their nostrils that hints at brain lateralization. Bold cats sniff strangers first, shy ones start with familiar ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

However, this trait is one of the most common signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) — the most common neurodegenerative ...

The Vancouver-based business rents plush animals to ride around shopping centres. It’s a hit with kids, teens and adults ...

We are philosophers who study consciousness, and in our recent research we worked with other scientists to explore what the ...

Brain ion channels have molecular memory, changing shape after repeated signals, affecting neurotransmitter release.

Research reveals key brain differences between Asian and African elephants, offering insights into intelligence, behavior, ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...

A new study published in Brain Communications has uncovered abnormal brain wave activity in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting a potential new biomarker for tracking the condition and ...

Meanwhile, studies for decades (including one in 1971) have shown that people and animals ... that the brain accomplishes the "handoff" from one hemisphere to the other much like two cellular ...