The claim that the brain, and particularly the frontal lobe, finishes developing at 25 is far less solid than social media ...

Adulthood at 18 years of age? Interestingly, science tells us that the part of the brain responsible for decision-making and risk assessment, the prefrontal cortex, is not fully developed in young ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

An image from the research shows axons from neurons in the ACA (red) and ORB (green) innervating the visual cortex, targeting discrete layers. Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT ...