The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex.

New connections in human brain. The researchers found that while the connectivity of the posterior middle temporal areas in chimpanzees is confined mainly to the temporal lobe, in humans a new ...

Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has ...

To determine which brain areas are necessary for a certain ability, ... This approach, known as ‘lesion-deficit mapping’, is the most powerful method for localising function in the human brain.

Researchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) have identified seven new areas of the human insular cortex, a region of the brain that is involved in a wide variety of functions, including self ...

How Meditation Physically Alters Key Areas of the Brain. Story by Marian Avila • 3w. F or centuries, meditation has been lauded for its ability to cultivate inner peace and reduce stress.

The study shows that when older individuals listen to familiar music, sensory-related areas of the brain become extra active, while the regions responsible for memory function are less active.

This area, nestled between the brain's two hemispheres, appears critical to a person's sense of inhabiting their own body, or bodily self, the team recently reported in the journal Neuron. Sponsor ...

False-colour positron emission tomography (PET) scan highlighting limbic areas in a human brain. A receptor for the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA is visualised here in regions of the brain ...

The brain's overall size begins to shrink when you’re in your 30s or 40s, and the rate of shrinkage increases once you reach age 60. Brain shrinkage doesn’t happen to all areas of the brain at ...

Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 24, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 07 / 220704180914.htm. Radboud University Nijmegen.