Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

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Recent advances in neuroimaging and molecular analyses have considerably enriched our understanding of cetacean brain anatomy and the evolutionary pressures shaping its distinctive features. Cetaceans ...

A closer look at the anatomy surrounding the brain and how it contributes to migraine development, offering insights into ...

These researchers had already found that nearly 70% of newborn baboons, like human babies, had early asymmetry in the planum temporale(PT)area of the brain. The PT, which is also a key area for ...

A large-scale investigation of carnivoran brain diversity, providing a unified description of folding patterns, their relationship to behaviour and ecology, and the foundation for future ...

A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia, according ...

Why is it that some people seem to come up with novel ideas more frequently than others? Why do ideas seem to hit at the most ...

Paleoanthropologists can trace human evolution through fossilised bones and impressions to learn about how our ancestors looked, lived and to where they travelled. Brains do not fossilise, so ...