Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterized by disagreement and controversy . . .
A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning.
The rate of prenatal growth directly relates to how big an adult brain grows. How and when Homo sapiens‘ high prenatal growth rate evolved has been a mystery, until now.
Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.
Our visual system sometimes sacrifices accuracy for the sake of a smooth visual experience of the world around us.
This profound meditation on the science of life explores where it has come from and how it evolves
Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer’s disease.
My colleagues and I thought that if the brain is able to read these molecular records when writing its long-term memories, we should be able to read them, too.
By paying more attention to behaviors, and not just to the activity of neurons, two researchers critical of most neuroscience learned how brains make sense of spoken language.
An artificial-intelligence technique called deep learning has now been used to model spatial navigation. The system develops a representation of space similar to that of the grid cells found in the mammalian brain.
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