Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images / Grafissimo The world, and countless generations of interactions with it, coaxed our brains to evolve in the unique ...

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As children grow into adolescence, corresponding regions on the left and right sides of their brain function less identically ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

A new study finds that teenagers with higher intelligence scores develop specialized brain hemisphere functions more quickly than their peers. Researchers tracked changes in functional homotopy, the ...

Life depends on motion. To eat, go home, or explore, we must know where we are, where we want to go and how to get there. We use specialized brain circuits to perform these tasks. Research in this ...

"How does the brain distinguish glucose from the many nutrients absorbed in the gut?" In a groundbreaking study, a research team at KAIST has uncovered a gut-brain circuit that enables the brain to ...

The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Pittsburgh in the ...

The world, and countless generations of interactions with it, coaxed our brains to evolve in the unique way that humans perceive reality. And yet, thanks to the past century's developments in ...