“Loving a nurse ain’t easy, and being one is worse!” That was a quote from a participant in one of our nursing-based focus groups this summer. Essential team members within the healthcare system, ...

Caricature artists exaggerate distinctive features of an individual, deepening a cleft chin or multiplying freckles. Yale ...

Successful navigation requires the ability to separate memories in a context-dependent manner. For example, to find lost keys, one must first remember whether the keys were left in the kitchen or the ...

To understand the full relationship between brain activity and behavior, scientists have needed a way to map this relationship for all of the neurons across a whole brain - a so far insurmountable ...

Imagine that there are a group of scientists who are trying to construct a treasure map from the clues that are available to them. However, quite differently from the typical adventure stories, for ...

What are humans? What are animals? And what makes humans unique? Comparative psychologist Fumihiro Kano has set himself a life goal to answer those questions. On 28 February 2023 it was announced that ...

Understanding how the brain encodes behavior is essential to tackling neurodegenerative disorders, physical disabilities, and other life-altering conditions. But that’s hardly an easy task. Mapping ...

Interacting with others can be challenging—just ask anyone who has ever tried to figure out group dynamics at a family gathering or navigate office politics. Recently, researchers studying the social ...