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

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 ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

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 ...

Recent research has found that the thalamus may act like a “relay station” for consciousness by modulating cortical activity in the brain. Researchers found “thalamocortical loops,” where information ...

Princeton scientists found that the brain uses reusable “cognitive blocks” to create new behaviors quickly.

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Eating this ballgame favorite also gives people inflammation-reducing antioxidants and other beneficial nutrients ...

A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired ...