When a person views a photograph of a hairy, looming spider or a slithering snake in a laboratory experiment, scientists usually see markers of increased electrical activity deep in that person’s ...

New research suggests that education can raise IQ by up to 15 points—even among identical twins—challenging determinism and revealing intelligence to be more malleable than we once believed.

What does the brain do to possess it? Everything the brain does, as far as we know, involves the deployment and distribution of nerve impulses in defined circuitry to control bodily functions, thought ...