The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

An aging mouse forgets where the hidden platform sits in a water maze. But strip away a single iron-storage protein from its hippocampal neurons, and the animal navigates like a younger version of ...

When you close your eyes and picture a familiar face, your brain does not conjure the image from scratch. According to ...

A new documentary explores how the Nobel-winning scientist who discovered neurons in 1888 had a decisive impact on giant ...

“We used deep visual neural networks to create numerical descriptions of objects so that we could understand the neurons’ ...

Why is AI overconfident? A new study explores "internal embodiment," the missing link in AI safety. Researchers explain how a ...

Living brain cells grown in a lab have been wired into computers to perform machine learning tasks, pointing toward a future ...

When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement.

When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that light plays a key role in how animals perceive environmental threats, ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...