Human brain function is predominantly studied using noninvasive, resting-state, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, the application of this technology since the 1990s has led to ...

Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But ...

Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

(a) Location of the Ordos Plateau; (b) Aerial photograph from the southern side of Shi-Er-Lian-Cheng (an ancient city which has been occupied for the longest time in the Ordos Plateau); (c) De- tailed ...

"Over centuries of evolution, humans’ pattern recognition skills determined natural selection. Hunters skilled at spotting prey and predator and telling poisonous plants from healthy ones offered them ...