Our bodies constantly work to maintain balance, not by staying the same, but by actively predicting needs. The central nervous system (CNS) monitors the body's status through internal signals, a ...

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Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over whether the brain can change during the course of a lifetime. Today, we know it can. Neuroscientists call this “brain plasticity.” Also known as neural ...

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