A recent study reveals that learning a new language or recovering speech relies more on brain regions that process sounds and ...

Music composed to evoke sweetness or sourness engaged taste-related brain regions and strengthened gustatory and sensorimotor ...

Summary: A theoretical neuro-philosophy and cognitive neuroscience framework challenged the foundational scientific consensus ...

There is a disconnect between what we think happens when we make a decision and what actually happens in the brain during ...

When most humans reach late adulthood, their ability to coordinate movements and maintain balance, broadly referred to as motor control, tends to gradually decline. While these changes in motor ...

Hoverflies are known for their sexually dimorphic visual systems and exquisite flight behaviors. This valuable study reports how two types of visual descending neurons differ between males and females ...

Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory includes four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. In the sensorimotor stage, a child learns object permanence ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves. Once ...

Abstract: During joint actions, humans continuously exchange coordination signals and use nonverbal, sensorimotor forms of communication. Here we discuss a specific example of sensorimotor ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...