What Happens to the Brain When Reading? Two Distinct Networks Activate, Work Together To Enable More Complex and Integrated Understanding of Individual Words

Medicine & Technology Apr 18, 2023

When one reads, two different brain networks work hand-in-hand to foster more complex understanding of words. Read to learn more.

People Who Have Developing Dementia Struggle to Identify Truth, Lies, and Sarcasm [STUDY]

Jan 17, 2022

A study confirms that patients of dementia are struggling to determine truths, lies, and even sarcasm during conversation.

COVID-19 Reduces Gray Matter in Frontal Lobe Resulting to Changing Mood, Neurological Disease

May 19, 2021

An ongoing study suggests that neurological disease and covid-19 are possibly associated and can result in frontal lobe cell reduction.

Neuroscientists Follow Thought Movement Inside the Human Brain of Epilepsy Patients

May 18, 2021

Neuroscientists from UC Berkeley conducted experiments on epilepsy patients undergoing surgery to track how thought passes through different areas of the brain before a reaction to a stimulus can be made.

Study Shows How the Brain Works While Speaking To Someone of a Different Social Class

Oct 05, 2020

The human brain responds in various ways whenever we talk to someone of a different socioeconomic background from our own, compared to when we speak to someone we perceive to be from a similar background, according to a new study.

Rene Descartes Brain Showed Unusual Bulge Frontal Cortex

May 08, 2017

Scientists have found that the brain of the 17th century philosopher had a bulging frontal cortex, the area that processes the words and its meanings.