Hearing just 16 seconds of music helps your brain predict what comes next, shaping memory, emotion, and how songs make sense.

In an era of overt sexism in the sciences, she made two major discoveries, including identifying a neuropeptide later linked ...

The results showed that expert bird-watchers had structural brain differences compared with novices, regardless of age. The ...

Over a decade ago, Tinsley Galyean, PhD ’95, joined colleagues at the MIT Media Lab (where he was then working as an ...

We like to think we are the lead actors in our lives, but we’re often just reading lines from a shadow script written by our past selves.

Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.

Digital engagement is neither inherently benign nor uniformly harmful among young people. Later in life, it can fortify specific cognitive skills through intentional practice.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

New research shows that seasoned birders — including older adults — had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to attention ...

Astrocytes are the most common type of cell in the brain and are generally understood to help connect neurons together across the nervous system. The study shows they play a key role in learning and ...

Traditionally, well-being is considered an employee benefit, a perk. It’s a gym subsidy, healthy snacks in breakrooms, flexible work arrangements, wellness days, a standing desk or ergonomic office ...

During the acquisition of correct rejection response, rankings of functional connection separated for cortical and subcortical regions, which is predictive of the peak timing of visual information ...