Avian species have become important model organisms in behavioral neuroscience due to their capacity for complex cognitive functions supported by ...

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on ...

New research suggests intelligence arises not from a single brain region, but from how networks across the brain work together as an integrated system. Neuroscientists often describe the brain as a ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

For decades, neuroscientists have developed mathematical frameworks to explain how brain activity drives behavior in predictable, repetitive scenarios, such as while playing a game. These algorithms ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, ...

Sea urchins look like an inanimate bundle of needles, but a closer look at these alien-like creatures reveals a surprisingly complex “all-body brain” that challenges our assumptions about nervous ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the answer may be in a surprising twist of evolutionary fate: one of the brain’s ...

Recent advances in neuroimaging and molecular analyses have considerably enriched our understanding of cetacean brain anatomy and the evolutionary pressures shaping its distinctive features. Cetaceans ...

Empathy in animals encompasses a range of processes whereby individuals perceive, share, and respond to the emotional states of conspecifics, often leading to demonstrably prosocial behaviours.

The human capacity to learn exceeds that of any other animal. Indeed, our massive memories and impressive computing power are the engines of all that makes us different from other animals, rooted ...