In joint research with the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ...

The data shows a rise in graduation rates, but the increase has not been completely steady as the coronavirus pandemic ...

The tolerant brain is much better at recognising its own errors relative to the ideological brain,” says Zmigrod. “The ideological ...

Evolution has given women strong executive skills, yet social bias holds them back from leadership. Promoting equity and ...

A new study reveals how humans instinctively calculate who to gossip with by weighing popularity and social distance.

Cognitive neuroscientists at Brown University investigated one of humanity's favorite pastimes and discovered how people can spread gossip without the subject of that gossip finding out—at least not ...

Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science spill the tea about the complicated mental computations that allow people to gossip successfully. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Cognitive ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

Scientists have revealed the assembly of the first brain mitochondria map, which they say could mark a significant first step toward unraveling age-related brain disorders. Mitochondria generate the ...

Senior author Matthew Wilson, the Sherman Fairchild Professor in The Picower Institute and MIT’s departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Science suggested that weakly spatial cells might add ...