A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people. Runnan ...

Scientists have developed a geometric deep learning method that can create a coherent picture of neuronal population activity during cognitive and motor tasks across experimental subjects and ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have created the first comprehensive protein-level atlas of brain development, ...

I’ve cut brains in half, excised tumours – even removed entire lobes. The illusion of the self and free will survives it all ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word “cat” is stuck on the tip ...

In a 2018 study conducted at Dartmouth College, 42 volunteers watched short video clips while scientists measured their brain activity ... in the inferior parietal lobe that have been linked ...

Early cortical activation associated with encoding of time intervals was observed in the right inferior parietal cortex and ... investigating the dynamics of brain activation patterns during ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has made waves in Silicon Valley, stunning investors and industry insiders with its ability to match the skills of its Western competitors at a fraction of the cost.

The researchers' work supported earlier studies showing norepinephrine caused blood vessels to contract rhythmically over pulses lasting around 50 seconds, followed by a subtle oscillation in blood ...

There were also brain differences between these two human ... Finally, Homo sapiens had expanded parietal lobes, which have been shown to be responsible for episodic memories (like movies ...