Researchers are using visual tricks to try to better understand canine perception.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2017 issue of The Scientist.

The birds’ ability to multitask may be attributable to a more densely packed cerebral cortex, scientists propose.

Researchers are piecing together the links between the gut microbiome and mental health.

Male rodents given access to a running wheel early in life show increased neural activity and improved memory as adults.

Did behaviors that seem ingrained become fixed through epigenetic mechanisms and ancestral learning?

New methods could propel investigation of neural “PGO” wave patterns that may underlie critical aspects of visual experience, dreaming, and even psychosis.

A protein found in human umbilical cord plasma improves synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory in aged mice.

Researchers investigate the unusual association of musical sounds with tastes or colors through the lens of another perceptual quirk.