"The bigger the better" seems to be one of those maxims that humankind is hardwired to live by. The notion is followed pretty consistently throughout nature, too, at least when it comes to gathering ...

Despite the claims of RFK Jr. and others, tests of intelligence and brain function were the same whether or not people drank ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology in Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, is also the director of the Notre Dame Human Neuroimaging Center and the Decision ...

A new study finds that looking at something and imagining it triggers the same exact process in the brain. It's also very similar to the process artificial intelligence uses to create an image.

We’ve been told that many things increase our risk of dementia — genetics, too much alcohol, not enough exercise, improper ...

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

A new study by York University researchers has found a potential striking flaw in artificial intelligence (AI) models. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of AI model built to solve vision tasks ...

After a stroke, the brain may do something surprisingly hopeful—it can “refresh” parts of itself. Researchers analyzing brain scans from over 500 stroke survivors found that while the damaged side of ...

We all know the feeling of having an “Aha!” moment—when your thoughts and ideas seem to flow without friction or viscosity and come together in a millisecond of perfect harmony. Having an epiphany is ...