They found that when someone saw an image they liked, their EEG readings recorded a series of gamma waves in the brain. This didn’t occur immediately once the image appeared, but took about a ...

How does the brain appreciate art?The notion of “the aesthetic” is a concept from the philosophy of art of the 18th century according to which the perception of beauty occurs by means of a ...

They found that 1,291 people who had a high BMI and a high waist-to-hip ratio had the lowest average gray matter brain volume of 786 cubic centimeters, compared to 3,025 people of healthy weight ...

Wind, invisible, as it passes through the wild limbs of a cypress tree somehow takes shape. It's a sight that sneaks-up and often leads one to a stand-still.

In this video, the possibilities of an artificial chemical brain take centre stage. It starts with chemical reactions, including a fascinating luminol-based clock reaction that acts as a timer.

The outer, gray-matter-heavy layer of the brain is called the cerebral cortex, and it controls many processes that we think of as “higher” brain functions, like complex thought and working memory.