Chinese researchers have developed a memory chip that can model complex brain structures in ...

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

For years, one of the simplest explanations for human intelligence was also one of the biggest: the human brain has an enormous number of neurons. It also has an even more enormous web of connections ...

Existing three-dimensional (3D) neuronal culture technology has limitations in brain research due to the difficulty of precisely replicating the brain's complex multilayered structure and the lack of ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

It's a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is ...

How is it that we all see the world in a similar way? Imagine sitting with a friend in a café, both of you looking at a phone screen displaying a dog running along the beach. Although each of our ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have identified five "major epochs" of brain structure over the course of a human life, as our brains rewire to support different ways of thinking while ...