For decades, researchers have attempted to pinpoint the specific areas of the brain responsible for human intelligence. A new ...

The researchers at the US' University of Notre Dame analysed brain imaging and cognitive data of 831 adults participating in ...

Human Connectome Project (HCP) map of white matter tracts connecting various brain regions. Source: Courtesy of the Human Connectome Project In November 2013, I wrote a Psychology Today blog post ...

Researchers have found evidence for a theory that views intelligence as a property of how the brain functions as a whole, ...

Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June ...

A new study of over 6,000 brain scans overturns the idea that global efficiency drives intelligence. Instead, researchers ...

The connectome is the complete map of neural connections in the brain, a project so complex that scientists compare it to ...

Researchers mapped early brain growth from mid-pregnancy to the first month after birth and found signs that sex-linked differences emerge surprisingly early.

A team of researchers, through a collaborative study, now points to functional connectome uniqueness (an individual-level ...