The human brain, weighing roughly three pounds, runs the full spectrum of cognition, motor control, sensory processing, and emotional regulation on a power budget estimated at 10 to 20 watts. That is ...

Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

The brain may organize emotions like locations on a map, revealing a hidden system that helps people interpret changing feelings.

An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented detail—from the whole organ ...

Every time the human eye darts from one point to another, the retinal image smears across the visual field. These rapid jumps, called saccades, happen several times per second, yet the world never ...

Google Earth’ for human organs made available online An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced, in ...

A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

It is well established in psychology that humans conceptualize emotions by features known as valence (the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness) and arousal (the intensity of bodily reactions, such ...

It’s far less gross than it sounds (we promise) and could have major implications for how we understand anatomy and disease ...

The tool displays organs in three dimensions and opens new avenues for researching key diseases, such as cancer and diabetes ...

Artificial intelligence now plays Go, paints pictures, and even converses like a human. However, there remains a decisive difference: AI requires far more electricity than the human brain to operate.