The human brain is often compared to a computer, but the latest wave of research shows it is closer to a self-building city, ...

Brain-wide map showing 75,000 analysed neurons lighting up during different stages of decision-making. At the beginning of the trial, the activity is quiet. Then it builds up in the visual areas at ...

Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

In a collaborative study termed the MICrONS Consortium, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlaid their ...

The fourth principle of the Feldenkrais Method, “Differentiation: the smallest sensory distinctions between movements build maps,” is a central tenet in understanding how movement, perception, and the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new package of papers examines the largest map yet of mammalian brain tissue. The map shows one cubic ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...