How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Stanford scientists have created a "digital twin" of a mouse brain. Just as pilots use flight simulators to safely practice ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section ...

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images.

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For ...

Carl Schoonover, a neuroscientist in training at Columbia University, has collected intriguing images of the brain for a new book, Portraits of the Mind (Abrams). “They are real data, ...

Researchers studied the brain of a mouse while watching The Matrix and the results have been deemed awe-inspiring.