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Ancient mutation may be key to humans’ unique abilities with speech.

Somewhere nearby, most likely, sits a coffee mug. Give it a glance. An image of that mug travels from desktop to retina and into the brain, where it is processed, categorized and recognized, within a fraction of a second. All this feels effortless to us, but programming a computer to do the same reveals just […]

At the McGovern Institute, we use basic research to understand neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. Today, our researchers took the #IceBucketChallenge

Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language.