This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

Does knowing a language mean knowing a lot of words, or how to speak it properly? The answer largely depends on your goals.

Outside of those 171,476 weird, wonderful words, you have idioms, which are phrases that can’t be fully understood based on ...

What if mind-wandering is not a flaw but a clue to living—and dying—well? In Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, it reveals what happens when we drift too far from our own lives.

Continuous learning doesn’t belong to any one age group. These remarkable people in their 80s who keep picking up new skills ...

We suspected that left- and mixed- handedness could be associated with disorders whose symptoms are related to language.

Learning new languages physically changes your brain and increases your cognitive abilities. But what really happens in the ...