In the first blog in this series, we quoted this passage from Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, Unholy Loves: Making love with him in the customary dark, she had often thought, though every instinct in her ...

What makes us human? According to neurobiologists it is our neocortex. This outer layer of the brain is rich in neurons and lets us do abstract thinking, create art, and speak complex languages. An ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, nerve cells in the human neocortex are wired differently than in mice. Those are the findings of a new study conducted by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and ...

The ability to use language to communicate is one of things that makes us human. At MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain ...