When the brain encodes and consolidates memories, it often connects related experiences that happened in different places and ...

Ordinary human cells, not just neurons, respond more strongly to memory signals when they arrive in spaced bursts rather than ...

Most contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems learn to complete tasks via machine learning and deep learning. Machine learning is a computational approach that allows models to uncover ...

Clinicians use electroencephalography (EEG) to assess brain activity in epilepsy and sleep pathologies, and this powerful ...

The human brain has the curious capacity to look for patterns without our full awareness, but we can utilize active, mindful ...

Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

For the roughly one million Americans living with Parkinson’s disease, levodopa is the closest thing to an indispensable drug ...

Previously, experts thought that remembering the facial movements involved in speech was primarily the role of the brain’s ...

Yelling at your kids may feel like the only way to get them to listen sometimes, but as a method of discipline, it can lead ...

A protein in the brain called FTL1 may accelerate aging and affect memory, paving the way for new therapies in the future ...

What we are witnessing is not necessarily a collapse in cognitive ability, but a profound transformation in how intelligence ...