New research reveals that neurons in the visual cortex are far more adaptable than previously thought, responding dynamically to complex stimuli during object recognition tasks.

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one ...

Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We ...

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Scientists create models by transplanting human brain cells culled from stem cells into the brains of animals such as mice, ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

Scientists have long struggled to define brain fog—let alone pinpoint a cause for it. But research is starting to reveal multiple potential causes from inflammation to a leaky blood-brain barrier.