Getting better at chess, it turns out, isn't merely a matter of thinking harder, or using one specific area of the brain---it has more to do with the neural links between brain regions.

Deep within each half of the brain lies the caudate nucleus. It’s responsible for processing visual information, movement, and memory. Dysfunction may cause conditions like dementia or Parkinson’s ...

If you have a knack for knowing just the right move to make — in a board game or in other walks of life — it might be because your brain has built up a special kind of connection. Researchers at Japan ...