A steady slide into frailty is the story many people tell themselves about old age. The numbers in a long-running federal ...

As mice age, changes in the microorganisms in their guts contribute to cognitive decline by altering signalling between the gut and brain.

Humans appear to be set apart from much of the animal kingdom, even if we do say so ourselves. While we often credit our survival to superior intellect and our hyper-competitive spirit, a new study ...

Intelligence is not elemental. Neither is artificial intelligence. Both are complex compounds composed of more primitive cognitive elements, some of which we are only now discovering. We don’t yet ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

Artificial intelligence is now inseparable from cybersecurity. The boundaries between code, cognition, and physical systems have decohered. As a result, ...

A cohort of 903 perimenopausal women completed validated questionnaires assessing loneliness, objective social isolation, and subjective cognitive function, enabling separation of emotional ...

A new preclinical study suggests that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may protect the brain from the damaging effects of a high-fat diet. Researchers found that mice fed a Western-style regimen ...

Does epinephrine make you think differently? Could love make you illogical? The assumption that artificial intelligence would necessarily replicate human thought processes may be a fundamental ...