Accumulating research and emerging experiences suggest we're witnessing fundamental changes in human psychological ...

UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our ...

Bilingual brains reveal something fundamental about human intelligence. It's not about language. It's about domain ...

New research suggests that the human appreciation for beauty may be rooted in biological frugality. A study published in PNAS ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

The scientific study of both internal mental processes and observable behavior is known as psychology. It explains activities ...