Cognition

Rather than always making the same call in response to the same stimuli, North Atlantic right whales are capable of changing their vocalizations.

Volunteers willing to place riskier bets tended to sport larger amygdalas—a region associated with processing fear. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant?

The Hope Circuit is a fascinating read for anyone interested in learning more about the history of psychology and the personality of one of the most prominent psychologists of all time

Dogs don't show consistent paw preference across tasks

Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American, talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love, about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.

Researchers use balls to study dog minds

Largest study to date of publicly funded early education program shows a major, sustained educational boost

The cognitive style you need in times of change, explained by best-selling author Leonard Mlodinow

A new study shows language is not a prerequisite for some basic reasoning

Our evolutionary cousins are exquisitely attuned to signals about sex and social status—the same signals that many successful ads rely on