neuroscience

For the first time in history, a scan of the brain activity of a suspected murderer has been used as evidence in a trial. Attorneys for Brian Dugan, accused of killing a girl in 1983, used neuroimaging to show that their client suffered from psychopathy.

200 milliseconds elapse from when an idea appears in the brain until it is transformed into words, according to a Spanish research. With this mental speed, a human being is able to speak about three words per second.

Have you ever felt a childhood smell transport you to a memory of the past? A neuroscientific study published in Current Biology reveals that the first scents occupy a privileged place in the brain, which explains why olfactory memory can be so vivid.

A group of Spanish scientists conclude that the secret of the change in mood of the Mona Lisa portrait, which can be shown smiling or serious depending on how we look at it, lies in the functioning of the human eye.

A new study reveals that musical perception could have its origin in the calls that animals, and specifically non-human primates, use to communicate.

We interview Vicente Simón, Professor of Psychobiology and expert in the neurobiology of mindfulness or mindfulness, a technique based on Buddhist meditation that, according to the latest scientific studies, can modify the brain.

Broca's area, a small area of the brain, is the center of language and can perform various linguistic processes in milliseconds, according to a study from the University of California School of Medicine and Harvard University.

This Galician neurologist, who directs the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at the Barrows Neurological Institute, in Phoenix (Arizona), investigates the relationship between visual experiences and the bases of consciousness. For this, he has resorted to the help of magicians and illusionists