John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

The authors instead suggest that the hippocampus and the perirhinal cortex both play a role in recollection and familiarity, and that these two regions of the medial temporal lobe differ mainly in ...

Results show that the brain areas activated by circular shapes mainly involved the sub-occipital lobe, fusiform gyrus, sub and middle occipital gyrus, and cerebellar VI. The brain areas activated by ...

They can include things like changes in emotions, thinking and sensations. What happens during a focal seizure depends on which area (lobe) of the brain is affected, and whether the seizure spreads to ...

The inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) is a long-range, associative white matter pathway that connects the occipital and temporal-occipital areas of the brain to the anterior temporal areas. In ...

The medial temporal lobes play an important role in episodic memory, but over time, hippocampal contributions to retrieval may be diminished. However, it is unclear whether such changes are related to ...