Brain scans of thousands of people revealed that the human brain has five distinct eras, with turning points in the way it is ...

What’s so special about the human brain? What distinguishes the human brain from the brains of other animals? These intriguing questions have been approached from many directions, but here the focus ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...

"It's been hard for the neuroscience community to take a step back from this old school interpretation that the brain is this blank slate," said the study's senior author, UCSC assistant professor Tal ...