Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language, and thought have been mapped onto distinct brain ...

Anthony Leonardo is a neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s research facility who has created an environment to track dragonflies’ neuron transmissions. This research will enable him to ...

To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

This Collection calls for manuscripts that map the human brain at the anatomical, circuitry, cellular, and/or functional level. To understand how the brain functions in health and disease, knowledge ...

Historical views of the brain reflect the biases of the time. The industrial age spawned mechanical explanations for the ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch the thalamus and cortex interact in real time. They found that the thalamus ...

The neurologist Marcus Raichle has remarked that studies of brain function have traditionally focused on task-evoked responses (Raichle 2010, 2015). As Daniel Kahneman has explained, such research has ...

Explore how Neuralink brain chips and ongoing Neuralink trials are advancing brain-computer interface technology, enabling ...

Editor’s note: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, especially during the summer months. Such experiences ...