That’s especially true for remembering things you want to do. Psychologists call them prospective memories: remembering to perform a planned action, or recall a planned intention, at some point in the ...

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

Learning new information about the world—like details from a fantasy realm—engages brain regions distinct from those used to ...

In a world saturated with stories—from ancient myths to TikTok clips—narratives knit together emotion, memory, and meaning. A ...

Neuroscientists there found that when people learn a new motor skill, their brains don’t just generally “consolidate” the ...

A new study shows that listening to a steady rhythm prompts the brain to reorganize its networks dynamically, syncing ...

The team analyzed over 270 million records of player behaviors in the game, such as leveling-up data and quest logs, to see ...

People often form impressions of others by quickly evaluating both how they look and what they say. A new study published in Biological Psychology offers evidence that verbal behavior and facial ...

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting ...

A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every ...