Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive ...

New experiences physically change brain neurons, creating permanent pathways that enhance memory and can slow the perception ...

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

Scientists have created an advanced visual neuroprosthesis that communicates bidirectionally with the brain, marking one of ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the AI revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this ...

Blindness profoundly affects people's lives. Around the world, several laboratories, including the Biomedical ...

Artificial intelligence entrepreneur and neuroscience researcher Max Bennett has a fascinating thesis in A Brief History of ...

A new study on mice reveals how a specific brain circuit helps them learn when a perceived threat is not a real danger, adjusting their defensive reactions over time. The research identifies the ...

Dancing, sketching, or even playing chess online does more than lift your mood; creative activities may actually help ...

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors—wide-eyed and heart racing—to instinctively freeze and flee. Evolutionarily ...

Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains. In the lab, Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Minhyeok Chang and colleagues ...