This optical illusion confuses the brain, revealing how perception works and misfires. It also shows links between visual ...

Researchers from Sweden have discovered that the human brain continues to grow new cells in the memory region—called the hippocampus—even into old age. Using advanced tools to examine brain samples ...

Each time we let a machine think for us, natural intelligence quietly pays interest. Four factors matter in making AI more ...

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute have discovered that in the cerebral cortex, synaptic signal ...

In rigorous tests, Centaur consistently outperformed traditional cognitive models, including Prospect Theory and ...

Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices.

Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought only occurred in children ...

A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced ...

Scientists have long known that the brain's visual system isn't fully hardwired from the start—it becomes refined by what babies see—but the authors ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

In AD, synaptic plasticity, the brain’s ability to regulate the strength of synaptic connections between neurons, is significantly disrupted. This worsens over time, reducing cognitive and memory ...

New research suggests that premature babies and even full-term newborns experience pain very differently than adults do.