Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

From there, a third team used AI to trace all the cells and reconstruct each slice into a 3D map. “It was like asking AI to do the world’s hardest colouring book,” says Collman.

How does your brain instantly know how to move through new places? A new study helps explain the science behind your internal ...

The map contains over 200,000 brain cells, half a billion synapses, and more than 5.4 kilometers of neural wiring. ... Evolution has crafted the brain to quickly learn and adapt to an ever-changing ...

Maps that show every neuron in a brain and all the myriad connections between them are called connectomes. The first organism to be mapped in this way was the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, after ...

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain ...

Future studies may even develop personalized brain maps linked to behavior, enhancing diagnosis and treatment options. Beyond understanding how we process movies, this research highlights the ...

WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons ...

Distribution of cholesterol in the human brain. Image Credit: Maria Osetrova. A major component of brain tissue, lipids are fatty compounds that make up 35-40% of all the molecules in the gray ...

In a world first, Harvard biologists worked with Google to diagram a cubic millimeter of human cerebral cortex at the subcellular level, paving the way for the next generation of brain science.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 ...