A scientist in Japan has created a technique that uses fMRI brain scans and artificial intelligence to generate sentences ...

When you're a teenager, it's easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of ...

Your brain can learn from imagined experiences almost like real ones, shaping how you feel about people and future ...

Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug with promising clinical applications for treating mood disorders and substance abuse ...

Negative self-talk, surprisingly, can sharpen focus and drive. However, it’s only beneficial when it leads to self-correction ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and ...

Harm and responsibility differentially shape guilt and shame, which in turn drive compensatory behavior to varying extents.

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

A lot of adults feel they’ve lost touch with the ability to get messy… and also just mess up. Scientists call that childlike, ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.