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 ...

"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 ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...