The Living Brain Project is the first large-scale effort to study fresh brain tissue collected during neurosurgery. To date, ...

How does the human brain process information? Researchers explore new methodologies that shed light on this age-old mystery. The human brain is perhaps the most complex of organs, boasting between ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead ...

By using advanced brain recording techniques, a new study demonstrates how neurons in the human brain work together to allow people to think about what words they want to say and then produce them ...

“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about ...