Neuroscientists have spent two decades testing whether the brain sits at a “critical point,” a phase transition between stable and unstable states that would give neural circuits maximum flexibility, ...

A team from EON Systems has mapped the neurons in a fruit fly's brain and uploaded all 140,000 of them into what could only ...

Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb wants to build AGI by studying how the brain learns—then translating those rules into ...

The systems use around 200,000 neurons grown from human stem cells, mounted on arrays of thousands of electrodes ...

The human brain constantly makes decisions. It requires minimal power to move bodies in a desired direction or avoid an ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and the brain later in life, investigators at Johns Hopkins Medicine and ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...

The brain helps us navigate through the world, but it also functions as a navigational system. This is the opinion of ...

Study reveals how navigation and memory are linked, with a stable brain compass helping keep memories organized over time.

The human brain holds a staggering number of connections, yet scientists have long struggled to explain how it stores so much ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery? It depends, of course, on whether you're making a hearty winter stew or ...

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that many widely used signatures of criticality in brain data may be statistical artifacts. They propose a more robust framework that, when ...