The human brain runs on a tight energy budget. Despite making up only 2% of our body weight, it devours around 20% of our ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the ...

New research uncovers how the brain processes learning by identifying the exact moment an animal learns a new skill.

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki, Ph.D.) has revealed, through fMRI-based brain activity analysis, that multiple regions in the ...

The federally funded work, which upends assumptions about the speed of learning and the role of the sensory cortex ... the brain learns, and we can makes predictions about how the human brain ...