David A. Leopold is in the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethseda, Maryland 20814, USA. In the 1930s, the neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield ...

Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...

Within the brain’s frontal lobe lies the primary motor cortex, a sliver of neurons that coordinates movement. Beginning in the 1930s, scientists developed a map of this brain region called a ...

Cornell's Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) lab has unveiled PoseSonic, its latest innovation in sonar-equipped wearables. PoseSonic takes the form of regular eyeglasses but ...

The way we move through the world impacts our bodies far more profoundly than most people realize. While nutrition and skincare routinely dominate anti-aging discussions, movement patterns often exert ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The term body positivity which has garnered a lot of attention in our digital world refers to having a positive image of human bodies ...

As human beings constructed buildings that enacted bold social experiments, they connected body and architecture through elements such as gesture, scale, proportion, and sensory dimensions. Dearq ...

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping ...

Japanese startup H2L has introduced a breakthrough device that could change how we interact with robots. The Capsule Interface allows users to control humanoid robots through their muscle movements, ...

LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - At Sotheby's in London, a group of people are taking turns to swing their arms, thrust their hips and twist their bodies on the floor, as part of a performance artwork ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. From the aroma of fresh-cut grass to the smell of a loved one, you encounter ...