Renowned neurologist and A.D. White Professor at Large Oliver Sacks attracted students, faculty and residents to Statler Auditorium last night for a lecture entitled "Creativity and the Brain." After ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision making and human behavior, scientists are studying ...

The lecture is part of UVA’s More Than the Score series, which offers campus discussions before each home football game.

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

A new study shows that dopamine release in the human brain plays a crucial role in encoding both reward and punishment prediction errors. This means that dopamine is involved in the process of ...

Not only can AI figure out what you're thinking, it can now predict what decision you'll make next based on patterns in human behavior. That has huge consequences for hiring. Most people already ...