A new Northwestern Medicine study has introduced a novel machine learning method for analyzing how the brain organizes ...

Sea urchins, albeit having a limited and ancestral sensory system, can show a complex behavior when escaping a predator. These marine invertebrates tend to move slowly and with unpredictable movements ...

Ants' brains are amazingly sophisticated organs that enable them to coordinate complex behavior patterns such as the organization of colonies. Now, researchers have developed a method that allows them ...

Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. While widely evident in species ranging from human ...

As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for doctors and scientists to "see" what's going wrong inside the brains of people ...

Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism. Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide ...

Complex systems science examines how interactions among numerous components give rise to collective patterns, behaviours and functions that cannot be predicted by studying elements in isolation.

As a psychologist and author specializing in the application of empirical research to clinical work, I am fascinated by the ways behavior research can be applied to understanding human psychology. I ...

As a psychologist and author specializing in the application of empirical research to clinical work, I am fascinated by the ways behavior research can be applied to understanding human psychology. I ...

An education expert has been brought in to provide advice as “increasingly complex behaviour” places significant pressure on teachers and school leaders. Tom Bennett is set to start his review this ...

Scientists rely on brain-wide association studies to measure brain structure and function -- using brain scans -- and link them to mental illness and other complex behaviors. But a new study shows ...