Pixar's 15th animated picture, "Inside Out," will take us inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl and introduce us to the different emotions that make up the brain. Sound like a hard sell?

You can read a picture book, put on a cartoon ... and take practice to integrate with the rest of the brain," Hutton explains. "With animation you may be missing an opportunity to develop them." ...

By scanning the brains of adults who played Pokémon as kids, researchers learned that this group of people have a brain region that responds more to the cartoon characters than to other pictures.

“Pictorial superiority is truly Olympian,” writes molecular biologist John Medina in his bestselling book, Brain Rules ... as words and pictures. We also know that animation and graphics ...

It’s your brain on booze, explained in cartoons. Stick figures and animated neutrons star in a viral video that illustrates how your brain works — or doesn’t — after a few drinks.

confined to the category of Best Animated Picture. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” “Fantasia,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “The Lion King,” “Toy Story,” “Finding ...