brains

BUDAPEST—Dogs can distinguish between languages, researchers in Hungary found, after playing excerpts from the story "The Little Prince" in Spanish and Hungarian to a group of 18 canines and examining ...

Because sound travels much more slowly than light, we can often see distant events before we hear them.

A new plastic “skin” can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to ...

People are inherently bad at watching computers work, and unlikely to get any better, no matter how much ...

“Body maps” show how the parts of the brain associated with touch map the surface of the body.

Parents’ attitudes toward justice influence their babies’ neural responses to morally charged situations, new research shows.

Sudden, traumatizing sounds can form lasting memories in the brain’s “flight or fight” region.

You see a guy at the grocery store—is he a college classmate or just a lookalike? One tiny ...

Some stressful experiences—such as childhood abuse—are so overwhelming and traumatic that the memories hide in the brain.

By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person’s brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, new ...

Dogs have a natural ability to process faces, a small study that put dogs in an fMRI machine ...

New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than “practice makes perfect.”

Mothers who are “mind-minded,” or able to “tune in” to their baby’s thoughts and feelings by engaging in ...

The human brain improvises while its rhythm section keeps up a steady beat. But when it comes to ...

Music training, introduced as late as high school, may help improve how a teenager’s brain responds to sound ...

When people with very high IQs are given moderately difficult task, their brains work more efficiently compared to ...

Infants can use expectations about the world to rapidly shape their developing brains, according to new research.

Even before a child learns to read, a quick biological test may be able to identify if she ...

There is nothing quite like the sound of a scream to make the hair on the back of ...

If you have trouble distinguishing friend from foe, you might not be getting enough sleep. A new study ...

Most mammals primarily process sound in a single area of their brain, but a new study shows that ...

A new classroom strategy uses visual symmetry to teach children the often baffling concepts surrounding negative numbers.

Though we can easily tell colors apart side-by-side, we have trouble remembering specific shades because our brains tend ...

Teaching young children phonics—the relationship of letters to sounds—primes the area of their brains wired for reading better ...

For ages we’ve assumed that early musical training in childhood is needed to have perfect pitch and that ...

Toddlers as young as two understand that the noises they make can affect people around them—and know how ...

Why are some people able to master a new skill quickly while others require extra time or practice?