Up to 5% of people feel indifferent to music and a brain pathway may explain why. When your favorite song is blasting through ...

Introduction Visual perception is a fundamental skill that plays a central role in sensing the external environment. Deficits can lead to impairments in everyday activities. Visual perception is known ...

In the USA alone there are about 2200 orchestras consisting of about 220,000 musicians (40,000 professional), which give more ...

The changes were most noticeable in parts of the brain like the middle frontal gyrus, insula, and superior temporal gyrus—structures that play key roles in emotional processing and decision-making.

A model-based analysis revealed a left superior temporal sulcus cluster that tracked partner reward prediction errors that followed participant choices. Our findings identify neural mechanisms of ...

Using computational modeling, the authors show that trial-by-trial fluctuations in happiness were successfully captured by a model including participant and partner rewards and prediction errors (a ...

A study analyzing over 500 newborns has confirmed that brain structure differences between male and female infants are present from birth.

Females had greater volume in the prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, superior temporal cortex, lateral parietal cortex and insula.