Researchers identify the rostral prefrontal cortex as the essential bridge between spontaneous and executive brain networks that drives creativity.

People with high levels of psychopathic tendencies are often incapable of feeling empathy for other people. From a brain ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers used a gradient approach to examine how brain state alterations during routine (natural) and regulated dietary decision-making processes ...

When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated tools, or when a child invents the rules of a new game, what happens in the ...

For decades, neuroscientists assumed the inside of a mammal’s nose was essentially a jumble: more than a thousand types of ...