When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated ...

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...

A Paris Brain Institute study has identified the rostral prefrontal cortex as a key 'bridge' between the brain’s spontaneous and goal-oriented networks, crucial for creativity. Using patients with ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...

The lion-man sculpture from Germany (dated to 37,000 years ago) must have been first imagined by the artist by mentally synthesizing parts of the man and beast together and then executing the product ...