‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

A study has found that elderly individuals with a sense of hope have up to 30% higher cognitive function than those without.

Folds in the cerebral cortex in mammals are believed to be indispensable for higher brain functions but the mechanisms underlying cortical folding remain unknown. By using the latest genome editing ...

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) provides 'top-down', higher-order guidance of thought, attention, behaviour and emotion, with dorsolateral regions regulating cognition, and ventromedial regions regulating ...

Kate Hoy receives funding from the NHMRC and Beyond Blue. If I had been asked 15 years ago to write a short piece about what the different parts of the brain did, it would have been a fairly ...