For more than 60 years, scientists have known that a strip of neural tissue that runs ear-to-ear along the brain’s surface orchestrates most voluntary movement, from raising a fork to kicking a ball.

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

They were wrong. Six years after that horrible day at the dock in 1996, Mickey Poduje entered a Boston laboratory and had a metal device the shape of a figure-8 pressed to her right temple. It sent ...