For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, working in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, have achieved an important breakthrough in brain research. The ...

When you get better at a skill—recognizing a familiar face in a crowd, spotting a typo at a glance, or anticipating the next move in a game—sensory neurons in your brain become more coordinated, ...

What makes the human brain capable of language, imagination, mathematics and invention? For many years, the prevailing view ...

A new study proves individual human cortical neurons have the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neural ...

Tires may do more than wear down on the road—a chemical they release could be quietly raising your risk of Alzheimer's.

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Previous studies have linked NPAS3 to conditions involving cognitive problems, such as schizophrenia, but scientists didn’t ...

New research from University of Rochester faculty members Ralf Haefner and Adam Snyder and graduate student Shizhao Liu challenges a long-standing theory in neuroscience by showing that as learning ...