The human brain is a small organ with an enormous reputation. It shapes every thought, memory, emotion, and decision, yet scientists are still working to uncover how it truly operates. Even with all ...
When Jie Zheng and colleagues threaded hair-thin electrodes into the brains of epilepsy patients at Children’s Hospital Boston, they expected to find separate groups of neurons handling separate jobs: ...
Open any introductory psychology textbook and you will find the same diagram: two boxes, one labeled “episodic memory” for personal life events, the other labeled “semantic memory” for general facts ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. The brain is unimaginably complex. Google and Harvard recently announced ...
As a psychologist and neuroscientist with over two decades of research, I’m shocked by all the pseudoscience and misinformation on the internet about the brain and mental health. The truth is: Brain ...
A new study (Cardenas et al., 2026) suggests that just 20 minutes of moderate cardio may trigger brain activity tied to learning and memory. Researchers found that a single cycling session sparked ...