Neuroscience

Researchers studying yellow warbler responses to the parasitic cowbird realized that red-winged blackbirds were eavesdropping on the calls and reacting to them, too.

Neurons in the hippocampus categorize what we experience into abstract, discrete events, such as taking a walk versus having lunch

A study on isolation’s neural underpinnings implies many may feel literally “starved” for contact amid the COVID-19 pandemic

To make it in urban areas, birds tend to be either large-brained and able to produce few offspring or small-brained and extremely fertile. In natural habitats, most birds brains are of average size.

Most of us have experienced deja vu—that sensation when new events feel eerily familiar. Could this "glitch in the Matrix" be a brain short-circuit?

Both of two essential brain networks that switch roles—one is on when the other is off—shut down in unresponsive individuals

A study in infants adds to the debate about whether we come into the world prepped for higher cognitive abilities such as face recognition

Understanding a surprising effect may eventually improve human hearing

White matter, the insulation around our neural wiring, plays a critical role in acquiring knowledge 

A new study in mice concludes stress can cause gray hair—and credits overactive nerves with the change in hue. Karen Hopkin reports. 

EEGs successfully picked out which depressed individuals got better on the drug Zoloft

A mouse study shows immune cells gobbling up the connections between memory-associated neurons