By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Norman Doidge, citing a study by Merzenich and colleagues, found that the brain allocates neurological resources to its most ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Groundbreaking brain atlases reveal dynamic neuron and glia development across species, transforming static maps into a ...

The next great transformation may be the rise of networked minds, the merging of human and machine intelligence into ...

Meta is testing artificial intelligence systems that can turn patterns of brain activity into text, effectively letting ...

Every day, our brains transform quick impressions, flashes of inspiration, and painful moments into enduring memories that ...

The ability of these devices to access aspects of a person’s innermost life, including preconscious thought, raises the stakes on concerns about how to keep neural data private. It also poses ethical ...

Long-term memory emerges from a sequence of molecular programs that sort, stabilize, and reinforce important experiences.