Amazing Brains

Articles explaining how the brain performs complex tasks and processes information. Topics include memory formation, language acquisition, hemispheric differences, problem solving, and rapid cognitive processing.

Chemicals for Creativity

Brain chemicals linked to creativity show higher levels in intelligent people who think more creatively.

Fight or Flight: Coping with Danger

When we're faced with danger or stress, our brain responds by triggering release of hormones that sharpen all our senses and abilities, so we can fight.

How Does Language Acquisition Happen?

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

How Your Memory Works

Memory is classified as short and long term, implicit or explicit. Emotion plays a part in determining which memories are retained.

Learning Another Language

Language learning is easiest in childhood. It is associated with cognitive advantages at all ages, and the languages we speak seem to affect how we use our.

Learning Motor Skills

We all learn a tremendous array of highly complex motor skills, through a combination of physical practice and later slow learning whereby the brain.

Left and Right Brain Working Together

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

Left Brain vs. Right: What's the Difference?

The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. But do they also control totally different types of cognitive function?

Solving Problems with Fluid Intelligence

Use your brain's natural problem-solving ability to handle everyday challenges better and faster.

Understanding High Speed Brains

Genetics plays a bigger role in brain speed and intelligence than we thought, new brain imaging shows.

When Language Acquisition Goes Wrong

Why children master grammar mistakes that would baffle adults, and what happens to language learning ability after age six.