When people are framed as something less than fully human, public empathy and willingness to protect their rights shrink ...

Older adults may find learning new languages challenging, but recent research shows the effort itself provides significant ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

Researchers have created a protein that can detect the faint chemical signals neurons receive from other brain cells. By tracking glutamate in real time, scientists can finally see how neurons process ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a much quieter conversation. Now a set of new tools is letting researchers ...

TOKYO (AP) — I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still can’t grasp ...