The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey famously opens with an ancient apelike human ancestor suddenly realizing that he could use large bones as weapons. Others in his group who see him quickly adopt the ...

Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal a robot hand that learned human behavior on its own. This matters because it demonstrates the potential for machines to adapt, interact, and learn like humans.

The basal ganglia are a group of interconnected structures, located in the midbrain below the cerebral cortex, that play a crucial role in motor control, reward processing, and cognition. This region ...

Psychological experiments are a great way to gain insights into human behaviour. While many have been repeated, some cannot ...

Unusually among human cultures, the Northern Aché people of Paraguay do not practice communal singing or dancing or sing to their children. (Photo of Aché building a traditional fishing dam by Kim ...