While past research has hinted at an overlap in relevant brain regions, the new work drills down to the cellular level. The ...
There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...
A zebra finch can fit in the palm of your hand, but its brain is doing something that looks almost unruly. Inside one part of ...
Despite its small size—it could sit in the palm of your hand—the zebra finch is a remarkable learner. A songbird native to ...
Explore 25 rare brain abilities only a tiny fraction of people have, from tetrachromacy to echolocation. Uncover the ...
“We used deep visual neural networks to create numerical descriptions of objects so that we could understand the neurons’ ...
A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...
How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...
October saw several universities launch major initiatives in brain science and neurological research, often with the help of new private gifts to underwrite their efforts. Here are summaries of the ...