Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Whence is this creation? Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Whence all creation had its origin, the ...

A new MIT study finds that somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the brain’s visual cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory ...

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We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...