With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

Comparative studies on brain asymmetry date back to the 19th century but then largely
disappeared due to the assumption that lateralization is uniquely human. Since the …

Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is an emergent phenomenon present in
several complex systems, ranging from social and physical to biological and technological …

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying
increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged …

There is great interest in estimating brain “networks” from FMRI data. This is often attempted
by identifying a set of functional “nodes”(eg, spatial ROIs or ICA maps) and then conducting …

Functional lateralisation is a fundamental principle of the human brain. However, a
comprehensive taxonomy of functional lateralisation and its organisation in the brain is …

Playing a musical instrument is an intense, multisensory, and motor experience that usually
commences at an early age and requires the acquisition and maintenance of a range of …

The underconnectivity theory of autism attributes the disorder to lower anatomical and
functional systems connectivity between frontal and more posterior cortical processing. Here …

The aim of this study was to obtain information on the axonal diameters of cortico-cortical
fibres in the human brain, connecting distant regions of the same hemisphere via the white …

Learn how the brain processes mathematical concepts and why some students develop
math anxiety! David A. Sousa discusses the cognitive mechanisms for learning mathematics …