Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

By studying how retronasal odors trigger taste-like brain activity, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have ...

Spirituality may have evolved during the Paleolithic from a brain circuit that was originally involved in the control of fear ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. Initially ...

Study links teenage social withdrawal to brain structure changes, impacting cognitive function and mental health in ...

A neurologist shares her thoughts and research about “ecstatic epilepsy” in a wide-ranging conversation on how we perceive ...

That rush of chills you feel when a song hits the right note is more than emotion, is linked a rare neurological response ...

Findings published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggest that teenagers who are socially withdrawn show measurable ...

Adolescents who regularly choose solitude over social connection show measurable differences in brain structure and function, according to a large neuroimaging study.

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil ...