Cognition

Physical motion of neural signals may play a more important role in brain function than previously thought

Six months of piano lessons can heighten kindergartners' brain responses to different pitches, and improve their ability to tell apart two similar-sounding words. Christopher Intagliata reports.

A new paper argues the condition now known as “dissociative identity disorder” might help us understand the fundamental nature of reality

Young people with autism have more psychiatric and medical conditions than do their typical peers or those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Ulysses doesn’t solve the hard problem, but it conveys with unsurpassed vividness what it feels like to be human.

Warning a child that something, like a vaccine shot, will hurt can actually increase their perception of the pain.

The reach of the scientific method is constrained by the limitations of our tools and the intrinsic impenetrability of some of nature's deepest questions

New findings add fuel to the bilingual advantage debate

Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers

Hundreds of toys promise to help babies read, learn, do math and walk earlier than expected—many without scientific backing

A study describes the complex brain circuitry that lets us identify, savor (or recoil from) a taste 

The philosopher’s great work Tractatus is perhaps “a blank canvas” on which we project what we want to see.