Where Words are Stored: The Brain's Meaning Map
Semantic information lives all over the cortex
Stories by Simon Makin
What Happens in the Brain When We Misremember
Words with like meaning switch on overlapping brain areas to produce false memories
"Neural Dust" Could Enable a Fitbit for the Nervous System
Ultrasound powers wireless devices that can monitor nerves deep in the body
Tall Order--Heights in Other Countries Elevate but U.S. Stature Tops Off
As U.S. men fall behind and South Korean and Latvian women get taller, researchers suggest using height as a measure of development
Does a Newborn's Helplessness Hold the Key to Human Smarts?
Researchers say child care demands created a need for higher IQs—a hotly disputed view
New Evidence Points to Personal Brain Signatures
Brain scans of a person doing nothing at all can predict how neural circuits will light up when that same individual is gambling or reading a book
Could Childhood Adversity Boost Creativity?
A new finding suggests the cognitive effects of an unpredictable childhood are not all bad
Can Big Data Help Psychiatry Unravel the Complexity of Mental Illness?
Psychiatrists are looking to sophisticated computational tools that may be able to disentangle the intricacies of mental illness and improve treatment decisions
Injectable Brain Implants Talk to Single Neurons
New implants made of fine, flexible mesh last longer and cause less damage than current ones do
Can We Decipher the Language of the Brain?
A new initiative gets us closer to understanding how our brain cells communicate
Debate Rages over Whether Speaking a Second Language Improves Cognition
Some studies show that the purported “bilingual advantage” may be only a myth
"Brainprints" Can Identify an Individual out of a Crowd with 99 Percent Accuracy
Each person’s mind exhibits a distinct pattern that could be used as a distinguishing feature
What Really Causes Autism
A range of mutations—common, rare, inherited and spontaneous—in more than 70 different genes are now linked to the disorder
Breakthrough Prize for Illuminating the Brain's Secret Code
A revolutionary technique that switches brain circuits on and off has taken neuroscience by storm and is now undergoing a new round of innovation
Does Schizophrenia Exist on an Autism-Like Spectrum?
New research suggests hallucinations can occur in relatively healthy people
"Brainprints" Pick Out an Individual from the Crowd
Researchers identify people by the way their brains are wired
Baby Chicks' Mental Number Line Looks Like Ours
Like humans, animals seem to have an innate preference for small numbers on the left and larger numbers on the right
Subliminal Messages Influence Our Experience of Pain
The brain can learn to associate certain images with more or less pain, even if the images never reach our awareness
Feeling Awe May Be Good for Our Health
That thunderstruck feeling is linked to lower inflammation
A Red Flag for a Neurodegenerative Disease That May Be Transmissible
Animal experiments show how a just-discovered prion triggers a rare Parkinson’s-like disease
