brains

Tucked underneath the brain's outer, wrinkly cortex is a deeply mysterious area, known as the claustrum. This region has long been known to exchange signals…

While the physical differences between humans and non-human primates are quite distinct, a new study reveals their brains may be remarkably similar. And yet,…

Further evidence of this bias comes from the reaction of the mice when they were first put into learning situations. Before they knew whether the new…

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“It may be that stimulation of the nucleus accumbens altered the reward circuitry in the brain such that it turned down the volume on the pleasurable craving…

Scientists from Trinity believe our brains could use quantum computation after adapting an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum gravity to…

The tiny blobs of lab-grown human brain tissue were just specks, each measuring a few millimeters in diameter. Researchers at Stanford University made them…

A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain's possibilities. The finding that the adult brain has…

So neuroscientists use an approach called “dimensionality reduction” to make such visualization possible—they take data from thousands of neurons and, by…

It's long been possible to make extremely small robots, but they usually need some form of direct external control just to operate. Cornell scientists may…