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 ...

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

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the adult human brain was largely fixed. According to this view, the ...

Scientists found our brain may organize behavior by activity patterns rather than fixed regions, reshaping how brain control ...

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

Artificial intelligence was built to process data, not to think like us. Yet a growing body of research is finding that the internal workings of advanced language and speech models are starting to ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

New research suggests that the electrical complexity of the brain diminishes in early Alzheimer’s disease, potentially signaling a breakdown in the neural networks that support conscious awareness. By ...

Why do we sometimes keep eating even when we're full and other times turn down food completely? Why do we crave salty things ...

A neurologist explains why the brain strengthens much like muscle –\u00A0through challenge, rest and novelty – and how simple ...