Understanding how the brain learns and applies rules is the key to unraveling the neural basis of flexible behavior. A new ...

Every sport demands physical changes from its athletes. Tennis players have to teach their bodies to accelerate a ball from 0 to 120 mph in a second or two. Judo players learn to be thrown to the ...

A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualize the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.

Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell sarcastic ...

Things You Didn't Know Will Kill You : 25 Facts Thatll Defy Your Expectations: Your brain can store the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of information, generate enough electricity to light a small ...

Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...

It’s a bit like seeing a world in a grain of sand. Except the view, in this case, is the exquisite detail inside a bit of human brain about half the size of a grain of rice. Held in that minuscule ...

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This humanoid robot has a mind of its own. Researchers at Tianjin University in China have created a robot that is controlled by human brain cells in a first-of-its-kind breakthrough in biocomputation ...