Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

Pain isn't just a physical sensation-it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a ...

During early brain development, the brain creates more connections than it needs, only to prune and strengthen the most used ones later in life.

Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of ...

To test this hypothesis, Dr. Jineun Kim (KAIST Ph.D. graduate, now at Caltech) demonstrated during her doctoral research that ...

This brain-teasing optical illusion is challenging users to spot a hidden word within seconds, and most are getting it wrong.