An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has succeeded to make a humanoid robot locomote via data detected from cortical brain activity that transmitted through an internet interface between U.S.A ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

"However, we found that it's also possible for the activation of one network to deactivate the other, so you see an anti-correlation. In addition, the activation of one network may cause another ...

Brain growth and maturation doesn’t progress in a linear, step-wise fashion. Instead, it’s a dynamic, choreographed sequence that shifts in response to genetics and external stimuli like sight and ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...