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

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

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

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Social feedback shapes human behavior and self-perception in profound ways. New research suggests that the personality trait of modesty alters how the human brain processes these social evaluations.

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

A new study showcases how brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between ourselves and the outside world ...

A new study suggests that a little-known region deep in the brain could be crucial for preserving physical strength as we age ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...