Right-brain vs. left-brain thinking is often discussed in psychology. Everybody uses both thinking types to some degree, but nearly everyone tends to have one or the other as a primary thinking style.

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Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Neurosurgeon and Engineer Dr. Ben Rapoport, co-founder of Precision Neuroscience, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the emerging technology of brain implants and ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

It takes a lot of brainpower to create BrainHQ’s brain training program. And much of that belongs to one man: Michael Merzenich, Ph.D., a professor emeritus at University of California San Francisco ...

Nervous system disorders are among the leading causes of death and disability globally. Conditions such as paralysis and aphasia, which affect the ability to understand and produce language, can be ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...