People with high levels of psychopathic tendencies are often incapable of feeling empathy for other people. From a brain ...

Individuals with high levels of psychopathy tend to struggle with feeling concern for others, and new research links these ...

Researchers have discovered how two brain areas, neocortex and thalamus, work together to detect discrepancies between what animals expect from their environment and actual events. These prediction ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL. The new ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

In a paper just published in Psychological Review, we argue that our imagination sculpts the images we see in our mind’s eye ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, a Boston College research team led by John Christianson explored how a pathway between two areas of ...