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Rather than a steady decline, the brain’s network stability followed a sigmoid, or S-shaped curve. It was stable until around ...

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A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a central role in triggering conscious perception.

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A new study found that during extreme endurance efforts like running a marathon, the brain may temporarily break down its own insulation to use as an emergency energy source.

Age isn’t the primary factor in determining ear sensitivity in humans, sex and environment play a much bigger role.

Every year, more than 795,000 American adults suffer a stroke, and one in four adults worldwide will suffer a stroke in their ...

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

Jamie Gustafson draws dinosaurs, sharks and pretty much anything else from the natural world. Some of his clients have ...

Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, believes LLMs are doomed due to their inability to represent the high-dimensional spaces that characterize our world ...