When the mind goes blank it often feels like someone pulled the plug on your thoughts. One moment you are speaking, working, ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s skull. It sounds extreme, but the study’s first author, Sadaf Soloukey, Ph.D ...

Our inner voice has always been a sanctuary — a private psychological space where half-formed sentences float safely between ...

The mind turns the brain’s calculations into meaning, weaving logic and emotion into choices that range from fleeting ...

Inner voices aren’t Shakespearean. They aren’t particularly verbose or composed either. A lot of the time, inner voices are ...

Neuroscientists think moments of "mind blanking" could be a way for the brain to protect itself.