neuroscience

As you walk, you make your way ... and your memory improves. Walking a minimum of 10 kilometers a week protects the brain mass and at the same time helps preserve memory in advanced ages, according to a study published in the journal Neurology.

Until now it was thought that only chimpanzees, orangutans and humans recognized their own reflection in a mirror and grimaced to see how their faces changed. But a study published in 'PLoS ONE' shows that a rhesus macaque monkey can do it too.

Different regions of the brain respond to secondary pleasures such as money or primary pleasures such as sex, according to a new study from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

Why do we touch the painful area after receiving a blow? A new study by neuroscientists at University College London (UCL) shows that placing our hands on the affected area relieves pain.

A team of scientists from Queen's University of Ontario (Canada) has identified the area of the human brain that is behind impulsive behavior and the mechanisms that affect how we learn to control it, which could help treat addictions to alcohol and the drugs.

Coffee or tea? Meat or fish? Potatoes or salad? According to a study carried out by researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (United States), when choosing between two options, 30 seconds are enough. And the chosen option is the one to which we pay more visual attention.

No. A recent study by British and German scientists reveals that, although we commonly associate laughter with happiness, laughing covers a wide range of emotions, each of which is processed in a different region of the brain.

Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain can predict human behavior by revealing our true purposes and desires before we even know them, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.