July 2, 2010 (Rhodes, Greece) — Preoperative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may identify which patients are more likely to experience language deficits after brain surgery for ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle argued that our thoughts are based on internal representations of the external world, and he distinguished between sensation (the image impinging on the retina) ...

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

Background Concussions are a leading cause of sustained physical, cognitive and emotional impairment in both athletes and military personnel. A pathological feature is disinhibited brain frontal and ...

We listen to sounds coming out of someone’s mouth and turn it into meaning so often and so easily we hardly ever think about it. But when we visit a foreign country and cannot understand the language, ...

A boy who had large parts of the right side of his brain removed due to a slow-growing tumor made a nearly full recovery in the three years after his surgery, with other areas of his brain ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Time-interval representations (autocorrelograms) of complex sounds that produce a pitch perception of 62.5 Hz. The ...

We all have negative thoughts from time to time. But what if those fleeting moments of pessimism were doing more than just dampening your mood? According to new research, the way you think doesn't ...