A new study reveals how humans use flexible problem-solving strategies like hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning when ...

Rejection can feel physically painful. It also provides a lesson for your brain on whom to connect with and how.

Imagine finding out your friends hosted a dinner party and didn't invite you, or that you were passed over for a job you were ...

The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart ...

A new study reveals that the brain rapidly rewires itself to map rewarding experiences like food, even when the location of those rewards changes.

Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create memories of meals, encoding not just what food was ...

Music has the power to soothe the mind, promote brain health and bring people closer together. Singing, listening to music or ...

This is a potentially valuable modeling study on sequence generation in the hippocampus in a variety of behavioral contexts. While the scope of the model is ambitious, its presentation is incomplete ...

Brain learns new things faster than previously thought, which could transform therapy, education and inspire next-generation ...