Amazing Brains

You're walking home late at night down a dark deserted street, when you think you hear footsteps behind you. Or you're a business man on your way to...

Children's brains are uniquely adapted to learning language, apparently containing a distinct language organ, so they learn perfectly whatever...

On your first day at a new job you walk into a room full of new people. The next day who are you most likely to remember? Probably your new boss,...

"If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak one you're English". It sounds clichéd, but unfortunately the statistics bear this...

Newborn infants can move their arms, legs, hands and feet around, mainly in a reflexive manner with little conscious control over starting or...

Cognitive neuroscience shows how different areas in both sides of the brain contribute to most cognitive functions, when the functions are broken...

In 1981 the Nobel laureate Roger Sperry pioneered the study of "split-brain" patients and discovered some astounding things about how our brains...

Solving problems is something we do every single day even when we aren't aware we are doing it! It's not just a case of dealing with a stressful...

Improving our brain skills and intelligence means we have to look to genetics as one part of why some people seem to have high speed brains. In...

Most children start babbling and understanding words around age one. Between age two and three their vocabulary and grammar improve in leaps and...