With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding of the brain. All of i...

There is evidence that musicians are better at detecting emotion. One of the most striking experiments involved a group of English spea...

Listen to a preview of the Attention chapter on YouTube . Get the Brain Rules digital audiobook on Libro.fm . What’s going on in o...

All of the evidence points in one direction: Physical activity is cognitive candy. Civilization, while giving us such seemingly forward...

Most developmental psychologists believe that a child’s need to know is a drive as pure as a diamond and as distracting as chocolate. Even t...

Listen to the audio excerpt from the Brain Rules for Baby Relationship chapter. For most first-time moms and dads, the first shock is ...

The field of brain science continues its explosive, propulsive revolution since Brain Rules was published. There are probably too many r...

We know that it takes you about 10 minutes to lose an audience if you’re just giving a normal talk. So at the nine-minute-and-59-second mark...

How does the brain work? We have no idea. We are still in the very beginning stages of understanding most of the basics. From a researcher...

Theory of Mind  is about as close to mind-reading as people can get. Most formal definitions go along the lines of the ability to discern ...