In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

How complex neural circuits are genetically designed and wired is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Scientists have ...

When facing new situations or problems, humans typically rely on knowledge they acquired in the past. Specifically, ...

Scientists use machine learning and SPERRFY to decode the genetic wiring map that guides neural connections across the entire ...

While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing video games. But from the ...

Does the brain treat these skills as one system early in life and separate them later? Or are they distinct from the ...

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain ...

The amount of sugar in the brain plays a key role in governing the activity of the brain cells that make myelin, a study ...