Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Can our consciousness be traced back to a simple neurological link? A team of researchers has suggested that in the cortex of the brain, a type of nerve cell, L5p neurons, are the connection between ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

To understand the brain better, we need new methods to observe its activity. That is at the heart of a molecular engineering project, spearheaded by two research groups at the European Molecular ...

Which animal is smarter? Dogs or cats. It's an eternal argument and one virtually impossible to answer due to the abstract nature of intelligence. Throwing some scientific evidence into the debate is ...

The brain undergoes dramatic change during the first years of life. Its circuits readily rewire as an infant and then child encounters new sights and sounds, taking in the world and learning to ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

A typical neuron is composed of three main structures: the cell body, axon, and dendrites. The cell body is where most of the cellular organelles are located, including the nucleus, which contains the ...