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

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

The cerebellum (which is Latin for ‘little brain’) is the area of the brain in charge of fine motor coordination and balance, and it keeps our movements smooth and stable by predicting what our next ...

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"Complex processes are going on in the brain when we sleep," says Dr Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. According to her, a more precise ...

Researchers have identified specific coupled patterns of brain activity and gene expression that help explain impulsive ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...