Whether it’s a surprise birthday cake or an underdog team suddenly stealing the ball, moments that violate our expectations tend to feel startling—and according to new research, the brain may respond ...

They include friendship, family, honesty, even goofiness.While there are no such discrete regions in the human brain, what the movie gets right is that aspects of our personality do not reside in ...

The brain's different responses, when viewing the stripped android (top), the human model, or the lifelike android (Image: Ayse Pinar Saygin, UC San Diego) 2 / 3 ...

AMC+'s 'Pantheon' sci-fi animated series features the voices of Daniel Dae Kim, Rosemarie DeWitt, Paul Dano, Katie Chang and Raza Jaffrey.

A new analysis of brain scans may explain why hyperrealistic androids and animated characters can be creepy. By measuring people’s neural activity as they viewed pictures of humans and robots ...

In a video shared to YouTube on May 21, three video clips show disconcerting examples of the Mona Lisa as she moves her lips and turns her head. She was created by a convolutional neural network ...

In The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, the product of 20 years of research, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist delves into the world ...