Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert ...

A Scottish snowboarder is training with Team GB with the aim of becoming the first athlete with motor neuron disease to ...

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

We can replace joints, lenses, even organs—but not the brain. As neuroscience unravels the mechanisms of neurodegeneration, ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

A new study suggests that how neurons process energy may determine whether they resist damage or begin to break down.

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

Study finds ultrathin tubes connecting brain cells that transport Alzheimer's proteins. The network changes months before ...