The first lesson in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s popular book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, 1 is titled "You Have One Brain (Not Three)." It focuses on debunking Paul MacLean’s triune model of ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have studied the brains of Australian bearded dragons, Pogona vitticeps, to gain insight into how the brains of vertebrates evolved. Early ...

The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles. The ...