Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, think, and age.

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

Scientists have created a computer model that aims to mimic the human brain, hoping it might teach us about ourselves.

Rutgers researchers found that the distribution of neural timescales across the cortex plays a crucial role in how ...

Another piece of the dementia puzzle may finally have been found. In A Nutshell Scientists discovered ultrathin tubes (hundreds of nanometers wide) connecting brain cells that transport proteins and ...

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

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human brain contains about 86 billion neurons. These cells fire electrical signals that help the brain store memories and send information and commands throughout the brain and ...

The human brain processes spoken language in a step-by-step sequence that closely matches how large language models transform text.

Houston Methodist neuroscientists have developed a first-of-its-kind method to rapidly produce synchronized, human brain wave-like activity in lab-grown neural networks that can communicate over long ...

Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems, remarked: “The thing that’s really, really quite amazing is the ...