New research shows jazz improvisation relies on shifting brain networks as musicians move from memory to creative freedom.

Guilt and shame arise from different cognitive triggers and rely on distinct neural systems to guide compensatory behavior.

For many of us, few things in life feel as comforting as a warm hug. But aside from signaling that we’re loved and cared for, ...

Scientists are uncovering how temperature shapes our sense of bodily self, revealing that warmth and cold do far more than keep us comfortable. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers are uncovering how ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

Abstract: The perception of near-threshold tones varies strongly across trials, likely because of fluctuations in sustained attention or arousal. We used parallel fMRI and pupillometry to study the ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and ...

An important new article explains why the Supreme Court's precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of America's overseas territories are wrong. In the Insular Cases of the early ...